Page 122 - Furious Five News Today

DJ Earworm Debuts 50-Year Medley of Pop Songs From Every Year Since 1970 DJ Earworm, who used call San Francisco home and whose year-end mashups were a mainstay on SFist for many years, has just dropped a 50-year medley that melds a few bars from 50 different songs — one for each year, in order, from 1970 to 2020. The five-decade instrumental mashup/medley titled "Time of Our Lives" opens with a couple bars of "Ill Be There" by The Jackson 5, and moves smoothly into "Maggie May" by Rod Stewar...

Baby Face to receive special award at the 2021 Grammys Updated Poelano Malema Share this: Congratulations are in order for Baby Face, who will be one of the musicians to receive a special award at the 2021 Grammys.  Baby Face/ Instagram The Recording Academy has released a list of all the musicians who will receive special awards at the 63 rd Grammy Awards for the incredible work they do in the music industry. Artists who will receive the Lifetime Achievements Awards are Grandmaster Flash &...

By Alexa Rodriguez Dec 28, 2020 Selena Quintanilla will be honored with a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award at the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. The Recording Academy announced the full list of honorees for its 2021 Special Merit Awards on Tuesday. Other honorees -- to be recognized at the annual awards show -- include Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Lionel Hampton, Marilyn Horne, Salt-N-Pepa and Talking Heads. Additionally, Ed Cherney, Benny Golson and ...

Whodini rapper John ‘Ecstasy’ Fletcher, hip-hop pioneer, dies at 56 [Los Angeles Times :: BC-FLETCHER-OBIT:LA] John “Ecstasy” Fletcher, cofounder of the early New York hip-hop group Whodini, who used electro-funk and R&B influences to expand the new genre into a commercially potent force, died Wednesday at age 56. The cause of death was not immediately known. “The African and Native American ancestors have gathered around and chosen this day, during the Winter Solstice, Dec 23rd, 2020...

John "Ecstasy" Fletcher, cofounder of the early New York hip-hop group Whodini, who used electro-funk and R&B influences to expand the new genre into a commercially potent force, died Wednesday

John “Ecstasy” Fletcher of trailblazing 80s hip-hop group Whodini dead at 56 Lyndsey Parker December 23, 2020, 6:11 PM WhodinisJalil Hutchins (left) and John "Ecstasy" Fletcher (right) backstage in 1984. (Photo: Paul Natkin/Getty Images) A who’s-who of the hip-hop community took to social media Wednesday to mourn the death of John “Ecstasy” Fletcher, best known as the charismatic, Zorro-hatted co-vocalist of the trailblazing Brooklyn rap trio Whodini. Questlove of the Roots was the fi...

The bicultural icon will be posthumously honored at the GRAMMY Awards on Jan. 21.

The cause of death was not immediately known. “The African and Native American ancestors have gathered around and chosen this day, during the Winter Solstice, Dec 23rd, 2020 to call upon a most endeared, generous, and sincere soul,” Fletcher’s daughter Jonnelle wrote in a statement. “‘One Love’ to one of Hip Hop’s Greatest! There will never be another,” his bandmate Jalil Hutchins added. Advertisement Fletcher was born in Brooklyn and grew up in the neighborhood’s Wyckoff pr...

Posted By Kelly Merka Nelson on Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 3:51 PM click to enlarge Facebook / Selena Selena is among the slate of artists that will be honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Recording Academy at the 2021 Grammys in January, MySA reports. Along with the Queen of Tejano, musicians includi...

Credit: Leon Bennett/Getty Images John Fletcher, also known as Ecstasy, of the pioneering hip-hop group Whodini, has died at 56. The groups Grandmaster Dee confirmed the news to Variety after the Roots’ Questlove first announced Fletchers death on social media on Wednesday. No cause of death has been given. A Brooklyn native known for his trademark Zorro hat, Fletcher formed Whodini with fellow rapper Jalil Hutchins in 1982, quickly rising to prominence in the early 80s New York hip-hop scen...