Chairman and CEO Bang Si-hyuk, center, photographed Oct. 15, 2020, the day his company, Big Hit Entertainment, debuted on the Korea Exchange in Seoul. To his left, Jiwon Park, Big Hit CEO of HQ & Management; right, Lenzo Yoon Big CEO of Global & Business. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
OutKast's Stankonia was released Oct. 31, 2000, and we're still feeling the stank two decades later. Michael Lavine/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
The band Songhoy Blues from Bamako, Mali. Kiss Diouara/Courtesy of the artists hide caption
The corner of East 96th Street and Church Avenue in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, N.Y. Dale Edwin Murray for NPR hide caption
Sade performs live at New Jersey's PNC Bank Arts Center in 2001. The artist released her fifth album, Lovers Rock, in November 2000. Debra L. Rothenberg/FilmMagic / Getty hide caption
Billy Joe Shaver, photographed onstage during Willie Nelson's 4th of July Concert at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on July 4, 2008 in San Antonio, Texas. Gary Miller/FilmMagic hide caption
Namir Blade Seiji Inouye/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
The BlackSon, center, photographed with several members of the BlackCity, Funky Tenn collective. Gunner Stahl/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Daisha McBride, The Rap Girl. Peyton Dollar hide caption
Bryant Taylorr. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
A.B. Eastwood. Dominique Alexander/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Nashville's music industry has never given homegrown hip-hop the support it deserves, so the city's artists and entrepreneurs are creating their own institutions. ilbusca/Getty Images hide caption
Bobby Shmurda. Dale Edwin Murray for NPR hide caption
In the early 2000s, DJ Drama's mixtapes launched artists' careers and defined a new sound. But when mixtapes became a scapegoat for the music industry's collapse, Drama took the fall. Richard Ecclestone / Redferns hide caption
DJ Drama. Dale Edwin Murray for NPR hide caption