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Source: Warner Bros Entertainment / Proximity Media When Sinners shows New Orleans twerking inside the Juke Joint, the easy reading would be to call it sexual, profane, wild, maybe dangerous. But that would miss the point. What’s happening in that room is release. A woman’s hips move with a precision that feels older than the […]
Source: Warner Bros Entertainment / Proximity Media In the hushed moments before the Surreal Montage in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners becomes a portal that transcends time, space, and language, Delta Slim leans toward Sammie and says, “Tell ’em who you are, where you from.” It lands like advice, but it feels closer to ritual instruction. Because […]
Source: PAUL DEFOSSEUX,KUN TIAN / Getty June is Black Music Month. While this is a time to celebrate all the bangers and musical contributions made by Black musicians, it’s also important to look back at the struggles they have historically faced. From unpaid royalties, white artists stealing covering songs by Black artists, to unfair label […]
Source: Warner Bros Entertainment / Proximity Media When the ngoni enters the Juke Joint in Sinners, the room shifts. The sound is small, sharp, ancient, almost easy to miss if you’re only listening for volume. But that little stringed voice opens a door. Suddenly, the blues is not alone in Mississippi. It has ancestors in […]
Source: Westend61 / Getty In honor of Black Music Month, I believe it is necessary to give flowers to my very favorite medium of expression: music. Coming from a musical family — and having multiple symbols of music tattooed on my skin — I know intimately that few things can capture the full spectrum of […]
Source: Michael Tullberg / Getty Rapper Young MC and Grammy-nominated singer Morris Day have officially withdrawn from President Trump’s Freedom 250 Festival in Washington, D.C., an event tied to the Great American State Fair celebrating the nation’s 250th anniversary from June 25 through July 10, 2026. Meanwhile, C+ C Music Factory frontman Freedom Williams is […]
Source: Drake / OVO Sound/Republic Records Let’s get this out of the way: I am not a Drake hater. I was there for Comeback Season and So Far Gone. Thank Me Later, Take Care, and Nothing Was The Same were the soundtracks to my college years. From 2007 to 2016, I was actually quite a […]
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 […]
