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Elle_Varner-Conversational_LushPlacing the next yellow brick in her own personal road to stardom (can you see that emerald city in the distance? We can see it) new kid Elle Varner dropped a 10-track ...

The new sexual anthem, which broke streaming records in its debut week, has caused conservative figures and politicians alike to openly speak out about an absence of respectability and conformity. But ...

Born the son of a Pentecostal minister, Michael D’Angelo Archer was destined to pursue a career in music. At the age of three, he began playing the piano by ear inside the Archer household. By five, ...

“Drake has it in his museum, but if I need it, I could get it,” Cam’ron shared, explaining that he and Drake have a mutual and understood arrangement. “He got a couple of my jackets… I told him my ...

Hindsight is crystal clear. Sure. But what the hell kind of laced blunts were those A&Rs smoking? Did they not hear “Dead Presidents” or “I Can't Get Wid Dat” or “In My Lifetime”? It doesn’t matter ...

The record business has (allegedly) scammed countless musicians out of their masters, publishing rights, royalties, and just about everything else under the sun. Artists who lacked the proper ...

Here, theoretical exercises were pushed to their maximalist extreme. What if instead of having the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul on one of his most beloved songs, JAY-Z grabbed the greatest performer of the ...

This sea change opened the door to R&B artists finally doing collaborations with rappers. Many of black music’s gatekeepers weren’t fond of rap, including Don Cornelius, Frankie Crocker, and Donnie ...

These iconic lines from the end of Warren G’s 1994 classic “Regulate” serve as a kind of credo for the g funk era. The popular subgenre of gangsta rap was all the rage in the mid-‘90s, and brought a ...

Music may be at the tip of our hands but access to it isn't solely in our control. Here are 15 great hip-hop and R&B albums that are not on Spotify and other Direct Service Providers (DSPs.) Music is ...

We got all of this great music during a time defined by its calamities and tragedies, tensions and technology. Music has been a respite that’s given us escape and entertainment; a soundtrack to our ...