Twenty-nineteen is about to be titled the “Year of Dance,” because Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott is coming back with new…
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Will this be the year Janet Jackson finally gets her due as one of the most important icons in music? After four prior…
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On September 29, 1998, I was a sophomore at Morehouse College. I didn’t live on-campus. I was living in the westside of…
The Aretha Franklin tribute at this year’s American Music Awards will pay tribute to the Queen of Soul’s gospel roots.
Who knew there was an actual day set aside to celebrate those who came, dropped their one interesting hit on us and…
Well, we’ve come to that once-a-year-event where Ja-Rule manages to sneak himself into a headline. This time, it’s over…
Despite ignoring The Root’s calls to become our employer, the hip-hop artist responsible for killing the spiders and…
Continuing a trend that played out on the Billboard charts earlier this year, Drake and Cardi B are sitting happy atop…
For Matthew Morgan and Jocelyn Cooper, it has been a long, 15-year journey to get the Afropunk Festival from the small,…
The rap world was enraptured for various reasons with the out-of-the-blue release of Eminem’s latest coaster, Kamikaze,…
Kanye West wants Drake to know that he harbors no hard feelings against him.
On the heels of the surprisingly successful The New Edition Story last fall, BET decided to ride the gravy train one…
As we head towards Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer and cookout season, Childish Gambino has dropped an animated…
Anyone who knows me can tell you that I am a huge Michael Jackson fan. I would go so far as to say I stan harder for…
For whatever issues they have (and there are many: colonialism, imperialism, Brexit, etc.) one thing that I will always…
The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, is being laid to rest today in Detroit in what will be a star-studded celebration…
If you want Cardi B to show up on stage at a concert or tour you are promoting, be prepared to pony up some big bucks.