June is right around the corner and so is Black Music Month, our favorite month to celebrate here at On The Groove Line. To honor the contributions of Black musicians and music industry professionals, we will present our “Black Music Month 30” podcast series on our YouTube channel. Called #BMM30…
There will be no Soul Train Awards or Hip-Hop Awards on BET for the foreseeable future. BET CEO Scott Mills confirmed that the network is suspending both awards shows, citing a need to “reimagine the format.” The suspension of the Soul Train and Hip-Hop Awards come at a fragile time…
Tyler The Creator is on an incredible hot streak that continues with his dance-oriented 9th studio album, DON’T TAP THE GLASS. DON’T TAP THE GLASS debuted this week at No. 1 on Billboard’s 200 albums chart, the fourth consecutive project from the California artist to earn that distinction. Tyler posted…
Add one more thing Clipse won’t have to worry about sorting out this week; album sales. Let God Sort ‘Em Out, the first full-length project from Virginia Beach brothers Gene “Malice” Thornton and Terrance “Pusha T” Thornton since 2009’s ‘Til The Casket Drops, is projected to sell 90,000 units in…
I admittedly was about half a year late to the Big K.R.I.T party. I watched people on my Twitter feed keep going back and forth virtually yelling “LEMME TELL YA BOUT DIS COUNTRY SHIT!” and wondering just what the hell they were talking about. It’s the fall of 2010. Little…
The early 1980s were a tough time for Black musicians as R&B/Funk bands were caught up in the anti-disco avalanche that killed the genre in the late 1970s. Ever the innovators, Black musicians and producers embraced modern technology, which took away from bands and session players of various instruments, but…