Tokyo, Japan. Dome Stadium, December [music] 30th, 1992. The Dangerous World Tour. 55,000 people had been waiting for 2 hours. Michael Jackson was scheduled to take the stage at 8:30 p.m., but at 8:27 p.m. in a dressing room beneath the stadium, Michael collapsed. Not dramatically, not with warning, just a complete shutdown. his body…
February 19th, 1983, the Beverly Hilton Ballroom. James Brown was performing at his own 50th birthday celebration, and Michael Jackson, already the biggest star on Earth from Thriller, stood in the wings, watching his idol with religious reverence. Then, James executed a spin so impossibly smooth, so perfectly controlled that Michael literally stopped moving, stopped…
You know, when it comes to female MC’s who paved the way for the women in hip hop. Nobody ever mentions Miss Melody. That ‘8s wave of female rappers, she was definitely part of that community. Her verse on a classic hip-hop song called Selfdestruction really stood out. She did her thing on that song….
Paris, October 1935. A young woman stands at the rear entrance of a cabaret on the Ru Pierre Shaon, waiting to be told what to do next. She has just performed for the first time on a proper stage. Not a street corner, not a courtyard, not the narrow strip of pavement outside a Belleville…
[music] [music] [music] you know, growing up, right? I remember watching the network called Fox that has some great shows and living color used to come on living single rock New York undercover. I even go back to watching the show uh South Central was on. It was a show called South Central. But when…
[music] [music] [music] Who remembers that cute little girl named Gwindelyn who used to be after little Richie on the TV show Family Matters with Steve Urkel. Y’all, she was just the little cutest little thing. But she grew up to be a beautiful [music] woman named Nia Rivera. Nia Rivera was super talented. Not…
What’s up, CU crew? Before we get into today’s video, I want to show you all the super fun game I have been playing recently called Match Masters. Match Masters is the world’s first player versus player three match game where you attempt to match colorful pieces and score points faster than your opponent. It’s…
You know, House Party is one of my favorite movies of all time and there were a lot of people in that movie that really made an impact and stole the show. I mean, Kid and Play did their thing. The late great comedian Robin Harris freestyle all his lines in the movie. He didn’t…
On the morning of December 30th, 1918, a young woman named May Coughlin walked into St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Brooklyn and became a wife. She was 20 years old. The man beside her was 19. The ceremony was modest. The parish was the same one where she had been baptized,…
There is a photograph taken in the spring of 1997. Carolyn bet Kennedy is leaving a building in Manhattan. She is always leaving a building in these photographs and she is wearing something simple and dark and her face is turned just slightly away from the camera. Not far enough to suggest she hasn’t seen…
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