In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. "Man, you kind ...

Plies, Florida’s 32-year-old snarl with a rapper hidden underneath, is nothing if not a work horse. Over the last 16 months he’s released three(!) full-length albums: The Real Testament (“Shawty” feat ...

I was heading home to Georgia and I couldn’t wait to turn on the radio. It was the summer of 2007. For the last year, I’d been living in Bloomington, Indiana, where I was attending graduate school for ...