Today is the 22nd day of June, in the year of our Lord, 2019. Since the year of our Lord 1996 I’ve been preaching…

Almost nine years ago now, I was listening to the radio, back when that was a thing, and I heard a song that sounded…

There’s almost no way I could do a series like this without at least one nod to my second-favorite singer of…

Since today is Juneteenth (in celebration of June 19, 1865, the day the slaves in Texas learned they were freed), I…

As a child, I grew up hearing The Temptations, but I don’t recall really listening. Of course, I knew of Motown and…

Intro might literally be the most unsung group ever. They’re so unsung, they don’t even have an episode of TVOne’s Un…

Happy Father’s Day!

Father’s Day is right around the corner and the one thing the men of VSB and The Root know how to do is procreate.…

I’d heard of Fela Kuti before I heard Fela. But when I finally made the discovery of Nigeria’s Olufela Olusegun…

I literally have zero recollection of the first time I heard Sister Nancy’s “Bam Bam.” I don’t remember it at all…

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Queen Sugar’s fourth season debuted last night on OWN, and bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh, they came out swinging. The episode,…

I don’t know what you can say about a song already called “So Amazing” that literally lives up to its title, even…

I listen to a lot of music, from hip-hop to country to rock ’n roll to even Celtic (seriously, some of that harp…

Like many of us, I spent various moments yesterday reading mixed reporting on the status of Bushwick Bill, member of…

I hear you looking at me right now like, “How did Ray J end up ‘round here?” And to that I say, despite the fact…

One thing I’ve made it a point to do more in the past few years is dig heavier into current music coming from…

Raphael Saadiq, the most underappreciated R&B artist of all time, is about to bring forth the sound and light with…

Let’s just give you all the punchline first: Dear people who live in Atlanta, I made it from Morehouse College’s…

I came to know this song by way of one of the greatest groups ever assembled: Immature. The trio of Marques “Batman”…