(CBS DETROIT) - June is Black Music Month. Every week in June, CBS News Detroit is highlighting a different part of Detroit's Black music scene and showcasing the role that Detroit played in shaping ...
Urban Art Orchestra featuring Slum Village The late J Dilla was a primary force behind incorporating the strong jazz influence into the music of the Detroit hip-hop group Slum Village. Dilla, who grew ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As rapper T3 tells it, Slum Village has "shaken off the fatigue, shaken off the chill moment, and now it’s go-mode time.” After a ...
Detroit hip-hop group Slum Village is gearing up to release a new album, its first in seven years. The group, now a duo featuring rapper T3 and producer Young RJ, dropped a new single on Friday, ahead ...
A decade later, Rihanna’s most unapologetic album still shapes music, fashion and culture. Michael Christmas cracks open his next chapter with an inspired cadence and a borrowed hook. You can find the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Young RJ of Slum Village Young RJ rode around with pre-fame Timbaland, learned from J. Dilla, and produced for Kurupt before he ...
The artist formerly known as Kanye West charged $90,000 for his contributions to Slum Village’s 2004 single “Selfish,” so says founding member T3. This aspect of the Detroit Deli track's conception ...
Hours ahead of Michigan Central Station’s blockbuster Thursday night concert, two of the evening’s performers — and a very special guest — were honored by Mayor Mike Duggan and Ford Motor Co. brass.
Detroit hip-hop is a global phenomenon now. But when T3, Baatin, and J Dilla were growing up in the historically Black Conant Gardens neighborhood in the ’80s and ’90s, the scene was provincial. The ...
Though deeply respected among hip-hop aficionados, Detroit underground heroes Slum Village never quite got the historical love like contemporaries like Tribe or Gang Starr. But without question, the ...
In time for Hip-Hop 50, Slum Village has dropped a new shoe and apparel collection. On Tuesday (August 1), the Detroit rhymesayers launched 'Fabric of Hip-Hop: Slum Village Fantastic Vol. 2' with Puma ...
As rapper T3 tells it, Slum Village has "shaken off the fatigue, shaken off the chill moment, and now it’s go-mode time.” After a nearly decade-long break, the fabled Detroit hip-hop group is back ...