From Ashton Kutcher To Swizz Beatz: My Top Stories Of 2016

A To (Beat)Z: My year in words. Pictured: Swizz Beatz, profiled this summer for the 10th Hip-Hop Cash Kings package. Photo: Jamel Toppin.

Time is running out for 2016, and deservedly so. Regardless of your opinion on recent national and global geopolitical events, the past year has been one of the most tragic in recent memory for themedia and entertainment business, particularly when it comes to the music world.

Forget “Oldchella”–the lineup of musicians we lost this year would have comprise...