Barry White

I first saw Chuck Brown in the summer of 1987 at an all-ages show at the Celebrity Hall not far from Howard University. Read More

He's been the subject of endless parodies, mostly focused on his "love man" image. Read More

DJ Paul's bleary-eyed hardhead marathon For I Have Sinned and Meek Mill's insta-blockbuster Dreamchasers 2. Read More

Underscore surveys undervalued artists, scenes, and eras of the musical past. Read More

We gathered emcees like Ab-Soul, Saigon, Ill Bill, Crooked I and Big Boi and others to speak about the music their moms played while they were growing up and how it's helped shape them. Read More

If you aren't a New Yorker of a certain age, as I am, it might be difficult to understand our dumbfounded reaction to the announcement last week that two legendary archrival Black radio stations — WBLS and 98.7 Kiss FM — would be "merging" into one; or, more accurately, 98.7 Kiss FM would be "celebrated" and then folded into WBLS. Read More

If you aren't a New Yorker of a certain age, as I am, it might be difficult to understand our dumbfounded reaction to the announcement last week that two legendary archrival Black radio stations — WBLS and 98.7 Kiss FM — would be "merging" into one; or, more accurately, 98.7 Kiss FM would be "celebrated" and then folded into WBLS. Read More

Lawrence Beamen's stirring rendition of "Ol' Man River" during Season 4 of NBC's "America's Got Talent" brought the studio audience -- and all three judges -- to their feet and sent millions of viewers rushing to their phones to vote for him. Read More

Sleepy Brown is one of the most musically inclined artists the Hip Hop world has ever seen. Read More