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ETI reviews Janet Jackson’s classic CD: Rythm Nation

Dean Michael — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:08:00 +0000

ETI takes an in-depth look at a significant album from her past. After Janet Jackson’s 1986 album Control and its assertion of her identity as an artist, Janet Jackson was thinking big. Rhythm Nation 1814 is a thrilling [...]

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How Hip-Hop finally acknowledges Mental Illness in music

Dean Michael — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:58:00 +0000

The best Kanye West line of 2018 isn’t even a Kanye line. It’s on his brilliant collaborative album with Kid Cudi, Kids See Ghosts. Cudi, who has been candid about his struggles with mental illness but hadn’t been [...]

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Don’t call it a comeback: How Janet Jackson proved everyone wrong and re-established her legendary career

Dean Michael — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 03:18:20 +0000

ETI and the Janet Jackson camp have a great working relationship. We were the first website to announce the initial return of Janet Jackson back to music in 2015. So to be able to first [...]

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How Tupac’s ‘I Get Around’ became his bittersweet farewell to Digital Underground

Dean Michael — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 13:30:50 +0000

Before Tupac Shakur got his own record deal (or even a guest verse), he was on the scene paying his dues like any hungry rapper. And that included general roadie duties for Digital Underground, the self-proclaimed “freaks [...]

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Only 40 songs have debuted at No. 1 in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 and ETI has them all

Dean Michael — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 20:17:00 +0000

In the history of modern music rankings, only a handful of songs have ever debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Hot 100 is widely considered the definitive all-genre singles chart in the US. Although it [...]

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Both of Music Hall of Fame Notorious B.I.G.’s children are successful business owners

Dean Michael — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 17:22:00 +0000

When Kobe Bryant passed away on Jan. 26 at the age of 41, we were reminded of other iconic figures whose lives were tragically cut short. One of those people is The Notorious B.I.G. Not only was the [...]

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Andre Harrell didn’t think Mary J. Blige was the right singer for ‘Not Gon’ Cry’

Dean Michael — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 03:37:00 +0000

Though Forest Whitaker’s 1995 film Waiting to Exhale, based on the book by Terry McMillan was pivotal for Black women, the soundtrack has withstood the test of time. The award-winning soundtrack written and produced by Kenneth “Babyface” [...]

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Jay Z says this is the ‘genius thing’ he did when starting out in the music business

Dean Michael — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 19:31:00 +0000

Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter has had nothing short of a record-setting career: In June, Forbes dubbed Carter the first hip-hop artist to become a billionaire. But there was one thing in particular that Carter did early in his career that [...]

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Akon’s advice to young singers and musicians: ‘Stop looking for a record deal’

Dean Michael — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 17:12:00 +0000

Senegalese-American singer Akon says young music artists should avoid looking for lucrative record deals and instead focus on building their careers independently. “In the next 3 to 5 years, the major labels won’t exist anymore,” [...]

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ETInside sits down with music sensation “lil Yachty” and how he worked at a ghetto McDonald’s

Dean Michael — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:00:07 +0000

Lil Yachty has emerged as one of hip-hop’s biggest stars of the moment: his first album, Teenage Emotions, debuted at Number Five, after his single “1 Night” racked up more than 107 million YouTube views. [...]

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