(ThyBlackMan.com) When I first wrote about James Brown, I thought I’d covered enough ground with the big hits—the songs everyone knows and loves. But not long after that article went live, I started ...
Taking soul onto the R&B charts, James Brown helped push the genre further into the mainstream by the mid-1960s with his first No. 1 hit, “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag,” which earned him his first ...
James Brown has been called a lot of things: a social activist, soul brother #1, musical innovator, and Godfather of Soul. Now he's the subject of a biopic that opens in theaters today. James Brown ...
D’Angelo had the voodoo, he had the sweet stuff, the special sauce. Tragically dead at just 51 of pancreatic cancer, the ...
On this day in 1972, an R&B icon surprised and angered a large portion of his audience to meet with and endorse Richard Nixon.
Atlanta - Singer James Brown, the self-proclaimed "Godfather of Soul," who billed himself as the hardest working man in show business, has died at age 73, CNN reported on Monday. Brown had been ...
From the moment you turned onto New York’s 125th Street, you could feel the love in the air. Songs like “Hot Pants” and “Cold Sweat” blared from every storefront, radio and boombox. Street vendors ...
Master P performs onstage during Day 3 of the 2025 ESSENCE Festival of Culture presented by Coca-Cola at Caesars Superdome on ...