R & B/Hip Hop Concert Tickets

While soul music started in the gospel tradition, it took on a life of its own when Berry Gordy, Jr. borrowed $800 to start Motown Records. The independent label would go on to have one of the most star-studded lineups of any label, and it gave birth to the Detroit sound known as "Motown."

With acts like the Four Tops, the Temptations, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Diana Ross, the Jackson Five and Stevie Wonder, Motown was a force to be reckoned with and providing the backbone for R&B for decades. However, other acts like Barry White, Parliament Funkadelic and the hardest working man in show business, James Brown.

While Michael Jackson carried R&B into the 1980s, the genre branched off into another form, rap. Pioneered by Grandmaster Flash and others during the mid-70s in New York City, the Sugar Hill Gang landed the first popular rap single, "Rapper's Delight" in 1979, and Run DMC had the first rap album to go gold, a self-titled album in 1984.

D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince won the first Grammy award for the genre in 1989, and other artists like M.C. Hammer and Vanilla Ice gained radio popularity as well. Rap took a more hardcore turn during the 1990s, with Tupac Shakur and Ice T leading the way. Now 50 Cent, Jay-Z, P. Diddy and others are at the forefront of the music.

R&B is still as strong as ever, as Usher and Beyonce of Destiny's Child have been at the top of their industry.

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