“Music is life for me,” says Burna Boy. “To see Burna sell out that stadium is a perfect example of that.” Burna Boy performs at New York’s Citi Field on July 8. “Listening to the album now, it just sounds like a battle,” says Matthew “Baus” Adesuyan, Burna Boy’s A&R executive and co-founder of Bad Habit Records. But spiritually, every …
How to encompass half a century of hip-hop? Like those airbrushed tunes did for hard rock, Vanilla Ice’s bubblegum-rap sensation made hip-hop “more accessible to the suburban audience,” Konowitch says. On Aug 3, 1995, Marion “Suge” Knight, then the chief executive of Death Row Records, used one of hip-hop’s biggest celebrations as an opportunity to sow discord. After aiming to …
