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KENDRICK LAMAR · 2015
COMPTON, USA
A gospel-grade promise wrapped in West Coast jazz: a young rapper from Compton tells a generation in the middle of an uprising that, somehow…
BILL WITHERS · 1972
: In 1972, a former Navy mechanic and aircraft-toilet assembler named Bill Withers sat at a Wurlitzer piano in Los Angeles and channeled the…
BEN E. KING · 1961
— In the spring of 1961, a 22-year-old singer named Benjamin Earl Nelson — better known as Ben E. King — walked into a Manhattan studio to r…