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Kara Jillian Brown is the senior beauty editor of InStyle. She began her career at Well+Good, where she spent five years evolving from editorial intern to news writer to beauty writer. She earned a ...

Despite being released 20 years ago, the Canadian hip-hop compilation Rap Essentials Vol. 1's influence and impact is still relevant today. The brainchild of Ivan Berry, known for shepherding the ...

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That cute sitar riff you hear in A Tribe Called Quest's 'Bonita Applebum' is a proper ear tickler, innit? Well, it's lifted from 'Memory Band' by Chicago psych-soul band Rotary Connection. It's that ...