“I wanted to make Pop Smoke a superstar,” record executive and artist manager Steven Victor says wistfully. He succeeded — the young rapper has two songs on Variety’s Hitmakers 2021 list, “What You ...

When it came to what he could do with an electric guitar, Eddie Van Halen was a trailblazer. But that doesn’t mean he pulled his inspirations out of thin air. One of Van Halen’s biggest hits, “Ain’t ...