A few years back, I wrote an article about Raphael Saadiq being the most underappreciated R&B artist of all time. I…

I haven’t physically gone inside a store in weeks. Sure, I’ve done shopping. I’ve purchased several pairs of shoes…

I can’t lie, Teddy Riley keeps pissing me off.

One thing we have a lot of here at The Root is music enthusiasts. We even have a Grammy-nominated artist (The Glow…

In retrospect, I realize I was being kind of petty. Not on purpose, but being a stickler for contrived rules can…

The Lifetime network doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to black biopics. My life has never quite…

I love my kids. I really do. They’re a riot when they’re not trying to end me. Or when they’re not forcing me to…

While the promise of a Teddy Riley versus Babyface song-off battle royale may really just be a pipe dream—I’m still…

You know what sound you don’t want to hear when you’re holed up in your house and you’re trying to avoid close…

For every melanated individual over the age of 35, Sunday night was slated to be the music version of boxing’s…

The one really fun and entertaining thing about this COVID-19 shut-in situation is the emergence of beat/song/hit…

Since we’re all stuck (or should be) inside the house for the foreseeable future (despite various projected goals…

I have no data to back up this claim, but I’d bet a so fresh and so clean (clean) $20 that probably 75 percent of…

If your soul so beckons you to fly to Atlanta in April, right now, you can literally buy a round-trip ticket from…

Like a lot of black men who grew up in the ’90s, hip-hop is the soundtrack for my life and has been for as long as I…

I closed on my house in June 2012. At that point, when moving from my apartment into my house, I made some choices…

The coronavirus has most of us staying inside the house—if possible—and that’s creating some new realities for our…

It feels like months ago when word started coming down that the coronavirus might shut down our whole lives for…

Back in October 2019—in a version of the world that is very different from the version we live in now—my nephew,…

My real name, while not traditional, isn’t exactly unique. This means that I remember when Gmail first dropped, and I…