Music

Manny Acosta is a singer-songwriter turned recording entrepreneur with two decades of musical inspiration stemming from the most unlikely of places, an incarcerated father. Raising children in public...

Kendrick Lamar's transcendent lyricism has him holding the torch as the leader of the new generation in hip-hop. The TDE rapper's certified double-platinum fourth album DAMN. postured itself at No. 1 on...

After Migos scored the top spot on the Billboard 200 with 2017's Culture, they're aiming to do it again on the follow-up Culture II. With nearly two dozen tracks boasting heavyweight features,...

It has been an uphill journey for Houston rapper Maxo Kream since he dropped his acclaimed 2016 mixtape,The Persona Tape. His evolution from chop-and-screw-fueled anthems, trap hooks, and real-life run-ins...

On Thursday evening, hipster kids trickled into New York's Public Arts and postured themselves on plush leather furnishing, as DJ Get Live spun in preparation for Republic Records’ #WeGotNow artists. In...

R&B veteran Tank released his seductively soulful eighth studio album, Savage, and was greeted by thriving viral streams. The album's leading single "When We," not only became his first Billboard Hot...

Hot 97 radio station’s Who’s Next series show at S.O.B.’s is typically where promising musical newcomers parade their cosigns and perform for NYC’s often brutal audience of music aficionados. Last...

Bay Area rapper G-Eazy shakes up his unblemished James Dean-chic with the release of his third LP, The Beautiful & Damned (out Dec. 15). It appears the millennial MC’s picture-perfect...

ATL's own Migos have been lacing the charts with club bangers and buzzworthy bars since their Y.R.N. debut single, "Versace." Between their huge influence on the current trap scene and...

Andre Torres, vp of the urban catalog at Universal Music Enterprises, has been a longtime vinyl hoarder and influential in hip-hop journalism for the past two decades. Torres was pioneering in taking...