Luther Vandross didn’t just sing love songs. He invented the kind of vocals that make you want to text your ex, light a ...

I truly take into account my unbiased view on how these tunes have impacted hip-hop culture. Spoiler alert: All hail what ...

It started in a smoky trap house in East Oakland, teens banging on a table, freestyling about scrounging up enough cash to ...

Curtis Jackson III was born in Queens, New York, on July 6, 1975. In the late ’90s, he began his rap career as 50 Cent, and ...

For Entry 005 of Mic Drops and Elbow Drops, Carl Lamarre explores if Drake could help bring the heat back to hip-hop this ...

Kendrick Lamar has broken two new Billboard chart records this week. The superstar rapper’s latest studio set GNX and his SZA ...

Enjoy this week's list, featuring new songs from A$AP Rocky ("Pray4DaGang" featuring KayCyy ), Chance The Rapper ("Tree" featuring Lil Wayne and Smino ), YoungBoy Never Broke Again ("Diesel / Over") ...

Things start off on July 11 as The Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Big Room again offers its stage to a local band. This time it’s Swamp Zen, the veteran six-piece that blends soul and rock and funk and ...

"Hip-hop has, in some ways, become kind of like country music," he noted. It's a common, evolving musical language in which ...

If you're planning your Fourth of July cookout playlist, these songs by blue-eyed soul artists should be in the mix.

Kendrick Lamar adds to his collection of Billboard chart records not once, but twice this week as his latest studio album GNX ...

From Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues” to Sly and the Family Stone’s “Hot Fun in the Summertime” to Harry Styles’ ...