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From Ashanti's self-titled debut album to Jay-Z's The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse, these classic albums became the love language of our generation.

On the would-be 64th birthday of Prince, we remember all that made The Purple One a global Black music icon both in life & in memoriam. 

As we kick off Black Music Month, join us for some figurative fun with a list of 10 Black music icons that would make great HBCU professors.

Black Music Month

“Wind Me Up Chuck” and get ready to Bust Loose or beat ya feet to the history of Go-Go music; how it started vs how it’s going.

Black Music Month

Houston has a slowed concoction of taking something which already exists and mutating it into something totally different. New sound, new emotions, new feelings.

Black Music Month

Philly soul is unmatched and Black Music Month presents the perfect time to shed light on its origin and impact.

Black Music Month

Unlike the philosophical dilemma, what came first the chicken or the egg, in the music world there is a clear-cut answer, before there was Hip Hop there was Funk and one can make the argument that the road to Funk went through Ohio.

From the two Kools to Flex, Clue to Capri, we 're giving 10 mixmasters that helped define hip-hop the flowers they deserve for Black Music Month.

Keeping our Black Music Month momentum going here at Black America Web, we put together a list of our favorite R&B cover songs from the likes of Aaliyah, Beyoncé, Luther Vandross, Frank Ocean and more soul greats.

Trap music has taken over has Hip Hop’s mainstream sound. In commercials, in movies, and even in Television shows, Trap Music is everywhere