Sad news for ‘90s nostalgists: Rapper Chris Kelly, best known as one half of the rap duo Kris Kross, has died at the age of 34.
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Five years from now, we’ll have 5,000 employees, we’ll have gone public, and we’ll be the biggest site in the world. …It’s the reinvention of the printing press. …It’s changed the face of human knowledge.
Fittingly, one of the guys who founded Rap Genius – a popular Wiki-style site that not only lists hip-hop lyrics but also explains them – is just as modest as a rapper. Get more hyperbolic quotes in our interview.
Despite Chris Rock’s protestations (“It’s just people singing over rap beats!”), R&B had a fruitful and vibrant decade from 1990 to 2000: The rise of New Jack Swing, the innovation of hip-hop soul, a bevy of breakout stars, and the ever expanding and collapsing boundaries of the genre.
To celebrate the Age of Irony’s best booty shakers and slow jams, VH1 is airing “40 Greatest R&B Songs of the ’90s” on Thursday night at 9 p.m. With the assistance of stars like Usher and Keith Sweat, the countdown special tips its hat to smashes like Ginuwine’s “Pony,” Boyz II Men’s “Motownphilly,” and Bobby Brown’s immortal “Humpin’ Around.”
Want to know what’s on the list? Check out a preview of what made the cut only on EW.com. Feel free to join in on the speculation, too. Which Destiny’s Child song will grace the countdown? How high will TLC make it on the list? Was “All My Life” so amazing you just had to dance to it on your wedding day?
RIP, Dogg.
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