NPR Music 10: 2007
Go back to the year 2007, when NPR Music was born, along with classmates like Radiohead's pay-what-you-wish album In Rainbows and the very first iPhone.
March 20, 2007
Robert Glasper includes "J Dillalude" on In My Element
One year after the death of pioneering hip-hop producer J Dilla, this impressionistic tribute appeared on an album by the Robert Glasper Trio — underlining Dilla's beat science as a relevant mode for acoustic jazz, in the right hands.
May 2007
"Rickrolling" is a thing
Who knew the Internet was never gonna give Rick Astley up? The prank known as "rickrolling" — in which the one hit by the deep-voiced, sunny British New Romantic pops up when a user clicks a disguised hyperlink — started on a 4chan bulletin board a decade ago and is still a thing today. Rickrolling is the perfect out there in cyberspace, and many lead back to that big, unforgettable chorus.
