Robert Glasper hosts ‘Black Radio’ tribute to Duke Ellington, J Dilla at Kennedy Center hip-hop fest

The Kennedy Center kicks off its Hip Hop & … Festival this week, from March 27 to April 19. “Duke Ellington is such an influence on me, on the culture, on all of Black music,” Glasper told WTOP. “J Dilla is also the same in his own right. He’s been a big influence on my generation. … He’s a producer that changed the way people actually play live music. He’s also someone that I got a chance to work with in real life before he passed. … Duke Ellington would...