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Luther Vandross didn’t just sing love songs. He invented the kind of vocals that make you want to text your ex, light a ...
Sean “Diddy Combs was convicted of a prostitution-related offense but acquitted Wednesday of sex trafficking and racketeering ...
In the vast, ever-evolving soundscape of hip-hop, few acts have held their ground like The Roots, a cultural institution.
On an album full of 2 Chainz and Larry seeing who can cook up the most preposterous bars, there are few better moments than ...
Having appeared towards the end of the 2010s, Summer Walker got her breakthrough signing with Love Renaissance, a powerful figure in the R&B and hip-hop industry.
In a world obsessed with image and self-worth, Delhi-based rapper shauharty (he uses this lettering) is busy tearing his own ...
Catch Beyoncé live, check out the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and attend a book talk on DC's Latino immigrants.
The year was 2005. And a young singer-songwriter from Oakland, Calif. was etching the first outlines of her music career. Now ...
There is more to the country than tarts, tile and trams. If you're going or just returned, here are 25 contemporary acts, ...
On this day in 2003, Gang Starr, one of the most revered duos in hip hop history, released what would become their sixth and ...
In the heart of Baltimore sits a place where the catfish is so perfectly fried that people plan entire day trips around it—Hip Hop Fish & Chicken, where seafood and soul food collide in a symphony of ...
If you want to know how big hip-hop was in the early 2000s, you go look at the Oct. 11, 2003, Hot 100. The entire top 10 is Black artists either doing R&B or hip-hop tracks.