Music History

Born in Buffalo New York in 1943, Jackson Carey Frank was 11 years old when he was injured in a fire at his elementary school in Cheektowaga. Jackson and his fellow classmates had been sitting in their music class when a furnace in the…

In hip hop, diss tracks and long running feuds have become a staple of the art form. As Rory Lynam discussed in a recent article, musical conflict no longer seems to be pushing artists into creating great music, but this was not always the…