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Lenny Kravitz to Play Marvin Gaye in Biopic
Lenny Kravitz to Play Marvin Gaye in Biopic
Lenny Kravitz to Play Marvin Gaye in Biopic
NEW YORK (AP) - Lenny Kravitz has signed on for his first leading film role, playing singer Marvin Gaye in a biopic that will be shot next year. The rocker's publicist Carleen Donovan confirmed the news Tuesday. Kravitz has played supporting roles in the past, including a small part in "The Hunger Games...
R&B for Dummies: Guide to Understand Genre’s Ups and Downs
R&B for Dummies: Guide to Understand Genre’s Ups and Downs
R&B for Dummies: Guide to Understand Genre’s Ups and Downs
It's been said that today's true R&B singers are the last of a dying breed. Longtime fans of the genre lament that it's not what it once was, having been diluted by dance and hip-hop influences as of late. Nonetheless, great R&B has flooded 2012, by the likes of newer artists like Miguel, Frank Ocean, Elle Varner and Emeli Sande. Fresh ...
Jay-Z the Subject of Georgetown Sociology Course
Jay-Z the Subject of Georgetown Sociology Course
Jay-Z the Subject of Georgetown Sociology Course
Calling Jay-Z an "icon of American excellence," Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson is using the hip-hop mogul's life and lyrics as the basis of a new course. Dubbed 'Sociology of Hip Hop: Jay-Z,' the class focuses on how Hova fits into African-American culture and the world of business...
Big Sean Taps Kanye for ‘Marvin Gaye & Chardonnay’
Big Sean Taps Kanye for ‘Marvin Gaye & Chardonnay’
Big Sean Taps Kanye for ‘Marvin Gaye & Chardonnay’
Rapper Big Sean has had a long road to success. Though he was immediately signed to G.O.O.D. Music in 2005, after kicking one freestyle in front of Kanye West, the Detroit MC has seen his 'Finally Famous' album debut delayed time and again...
Biopics We Wish Would Happen & Stars We’d Want to Star in Them
Biopics We Wish Would Happen & Stars We’d Want to Star in Them
Biopics We Wish Would Happen & Stars We’d Want to Star in Them
With Fantasia gearing up to play gospel legend Mahalia Jackson and casting soon to begin on a Tupac Shakur biopic, the BoomBox got to thinking about other iconic musicians whose lives deserve the big-screen treatment. What follows is a list of 10 possible music biopics and the superstars we nominate for the lead roles...
Lil Twist Breaks Down His Three Favorite Coming of Age Rappers
Lil Twist Breaks Down His Three Favorite Coming of Age Rappers
Lil Twist Breaks Down His Three Favorite Coming of Age Rappers
Since signing to Young Money at the tender age of 13, Lil Twist has been the youngest member of Lil Wayne's omnipresent rhyme family. This month, the Dallas native turned 18 years old, and with that comes a brave new world. "I'm not just a kiddie rapper anymore," Twist tells The BoomBox of his overall growth...
Name That Tune: Songs Notorious for Their Use of Sampling
Once controversial, the practice of sampling is now generally regarded as a viable artistic method of production and a mostly legitimate commercial endeavor. Good public reception of a sample-use often depends on a combination of factors including what is sampled, who is sampled, and how that sample is used to create something new...

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