'The Beat Goes On'

With the inception of Negro spirituals, music was a way from Blacks to overcome the hardships faced during slavery.


In 2002, Pres. Bush proclaimed the month of June ‘Black Music Month’. “Black music, in fact, is America's only original music, and the Spirituals-Blues-Jazz-Gospel-Charleston-Twist-Hip Hop gift is the foundation not only of rhythm and blues but also of Broadway, the Grammys and Elvis et al. And we can say of this gift what Virgil Thomson said of jazz: It is ‘the most astounding spontaneous musical event to take place anywhere since the 'Reformation’.



To further help celebrate ‘Black Music Month’, here is a clip of a pioneer of rap, Busta Rhymes’ new single, “We Made It".