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Young M.A's “OOOUUU” instantly catapulted her to the head of a new crop of MCs coming out of New York. While finishing up her highly anticipated debut album, the MC created an exclusive playlist for Black History Month 2019. “I was nine when I realized I wanted to rap,” she tells Apple Music. "I never wanted to do anything else and my mom definitely supported me. She bought me a karaoke machine, books, tapes, CDs, whatever I needed to work on my craft. She was always playing different types of music, too, which kept me well-rounded and topical with my own music.”

The mellow electric piano sound of Bob James is one of the defining sounds of '70s and '80s smooth jazz. Plenty of artists sampled that signature tone as a callback to the days when hip-hop was being born on the gritty streets of James' native New York City, from Run-D.M.C. and The Fresh Prince to Nas and Ghostface Killah.

Career milestones from Prince, Lionel, Stevie, and Tina. This collection brings together great songs from the top of the charts.