Dr. Marco Cervantes, the veteran rapper known as Mexstep, doesn’t think he’ll ever stop rapping. He’s built a successful career in academia, presently as ...

One of the early images in Shavone‘s music video for her song “Smile Now” features her standing in front of Fam Mart with a ...

Tuskegee University’s dress code is a marker of a harmful politics of respectability. In my academic career, it’s become all too familiar ...

Some songs take years to find the right ears. History is full of musicians who poured everything into their craft, only to ...

When Sony Pictures released the teaser trailer for “ The Social Reckoning ” last month, they described it as a “companion piece” to “The Social Network.” That deliberate phrase was clarified by a ...

The Listening: New Music From Erykah Badu & The Alchemist, Nipsey Hussle, Shabazz Palaces, Arya Starr, October London, Flo Milli and More This week’s new music Friday also features Tinashe, Rakim with ...

In a recent burst of creativity, Bristol dropped two brand-new Spaceman Jones EPs, Two Cents and Quarters, in June and is currently working on a follow-up to those called Change. He’s also ...

Isaiah Rashad, our guest, dropped his third album this past Spring. The record is called It’s Been Awful, and doesn’t take ...

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CLEVELAND, Ohio - North Carolina emcee J. Cole has built a helluva career mixing the flavor and sometimes the sounds of 90s/early aughts boombap beats and flows with the self-aware navel-gazing and ...