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The Rickey Smiley Morning Show Not to toot our own horn, but we have some pretty talented rock stars matriculating within the Urban One and REACH Media family. It appears that Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio understood that completely when it came to crowning the non-profit’s new President-Elect, opting for our very own Lori […]
Source: Sergione Infuso – Corbis / Getty Drill music emerged in 2012 when Chief Keef released the hit song “I Don’t Like.” That track, and the remix featuring Kanye West, pushed drill into the mainstream and put Chicago’s scene on the map. Along with Keef, other artists like Lil Durk, and King Louie started gaining […]
Source: Ronald Martinez / Getty Look, as a super fan of multiple genres of music — including hip-hop, r&b, reggae, bluegrass, and, of course, rock and roll — I just need to say… KISS frontman Gene Simmons is out here trying to piss me off. Recently, Simmons shared his thoughts on why hip-hop artists shouldn’t […]
Prince Williams For everything that we love about reality television, it’s often overlooked that before our eyes are real people — scripted or not! — doing their best, and most times the most, to simply entertain us. For those that succeed in doing so, the pressure to continue finding ways of putting on for the […]
Source: Jason Kempin / Getty The gospel titan Richard Smallwood died Dec. 30, at the age of 77, from complications of kidney failure, and Black America responded the way it always does when a true architect of our inner lives leaves us. We responded with sound. Choirs leaned into his harmonies. Church musicians pulled his […]
Source: BG048/Bauer-Griffin / Getty Where is the prevailing subversive music in the Trump era? Is the scarcity merely a reflection of U.S. imperial collapse being met with the wider disgruntled masses’ inaction? The Trump administration has confronted a record number of protests, but the music of this moment is generally not reflective of the ire […]
✕ If every musical note in New Orleans were history, then Sweet Lorraine’s Jazz Club could be the city’s master historian. For more than five decades, this intimate music house has welcomed locals and travelers alike, offering traditional Creole dishes and some of the best jazz, blues, and R&B the city has to offer. It’s not just […]
Source: Roger Kisby / Getty I entered July thinking I’d spend the rest of summer listening to Clipse’s phenomenal Let God Sort Em Out and contemplating giving up my career to try my hand at cooking a brick in the air fryer. So imagine my surprise last week when Tyler, The Creator announced not only […]
Getty Images for ESSENCE Tamar Braxton has always been one to use her voice for good — good music, that is! — and now she’s getting even louder with a new partnership alongside Gilead Sciences that will aim to promote HIV prevention like PrEP specifically to Black women. The big news was revealed this past […]
Source: Taylor Hill / Getty Let the Church say “Yugh!” Friday, July 11, marks the drop of Let God Sort Em Out, the long-awaited new album from Clipse, our favorite brotherly rap duo from Virginia Beach (757 REPRESENT!) and the undisputed pen-wielding philosophers of powdery prosperity. To be clear, this is not just some album […]
