1990s

Still Special: 25 Years of “The Velvet Rope”

One could talk for hours about the cultural significance of an album like The Velvet Rope: the way its composition and…

in 1986, house music was still on the ascent in the US and abroad when “love can’t turn around,” a…

most recording artists only wish to have recorded with quincy jones and prince, but by age 14, tevin campbell worked…

Picture it! America 1992. AIDS becomes the number one cause of death for men 25 – 44 years old. Activists…

standing at over six feet tall, kevin aviance annihilated social expectations of gender expression all while conquering ballroom and dance…

in the early 1990s, there was no shortage of dance groups from new york garnering national notoriety at both the…

I remember the night in the summer of 1991 as I sat on the steps with my two-speaker double cassette…

if you are up at this time like i am it is probably because you have been dancing in the…

there was a time beginning in the early 1990s when highly choreographed hip-hop music videos were frowned upon and viewed…

i met robert on the very first day of school of the seventh grade in september 1989. i knew as soon…

in the summer of 1988, i had a friend named jacqueline who lived next door from us. she was a…

oaktown’s 357 were one of hip-hop’s most exciting groups of the early 1990s. heir combination of catchy rhymes, dope fashions,…