With a smooth, deep voice like no other, Barry White’s timbre is immediately recognizable. Whether he’s helping to save snakes in The Simpsons or setting the mood. For the Galveston, Texas-born White, ...

White’s surviving family launched a legal offensive against Rodney-O and Joe Cooley over the chart-topping hit “Like That” by Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar. The Barry White Family Trust, ...

The Blaxploitation age wasn’t all about badass brothas and sistas whooping (primarily white) asses on the big screen. There were also a few inner-city coming-of-age dramas sprinkled among the ...

Rodney-O & Joe Cooley released the song “Everlasting Bass” in 1988, which interpolates a sample of Barry White’s 1973 single “I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Babe.” The snippet flew under the ...

According to All Hip Hop, the Barry White Family Trust, led by his widow Glodean B. White and Jack W. Perry, filed a lawsuit against Rodney-O and Joe Cooley, claiming that the hit song “Like That” by ...

The internet thinks Galveston has a new Barry White statue. It doesn't. Word gets around, however. Tuesday afternoon, I was walking near Rosenberg Library when two women in a white pickup truck rolled ...

LOS ANGELES -- Velvet-voiced rhythm-and-blues crooner Barry White, whose lush baritone and throbbing musical compositions oozed sex appeal on such songs as "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe," died ...

The estate has filed paperwork alleging that a 1986 hip-hop song, "Everlasting Bass" recorded and performed by West Coast duo, Rodney-O & Joe Cooley lifted the sample illegally. A sample used almost ...

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