Generative artificial intelligence is seeping deeper into our cultural fabric by the day. In just two years, AI videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti have evolved from poorly developed nightmare fuel ...
My difficult solution is to attempt to encapsulate whole movements in their nearly four-decade-long career with songs that ...
With “Dipset Anthem”, the Diplomats created an immortal song. For our latest Behind the Beat, Rsonist (of The Heatmakerz) tells Thomas Hobbs why we’re still listening to that “gangsta music” 20 years ...
Welcome to The State of R&B, ESSENCE’s look at the past, present and future of rhythm and blues. In this piece, ESSENCE editor Rivéa Ruff reports on the blending of hip-hop and R&B. Since the ...
On this day, the late television icon Don Cornelius launches Soul Train and rappers Ja Rule and Will.i.am drop new studio albums. In addition, R&B singers LaTocha Scott and Freddie Jackson celebrate ...
Overtones is a column by Jayson Greene that examines how certain sounds-- a snare crack, a synth blob, a ghostly string sample-- linger in our minds and lives. "On Sight", the first song on Kanye West ...
“What’s your favorite hip-hop song?” A fair enough question from my hip-hop rhetoric professor, it was simple but loaded; any answer likely met with a heaping portion of judgment. Most students in the ...
De La Soul, photo by Robert Adam Mayer De La Soul have announced their tenth studio album. Cabin in the Sky. The foundational ...
There’s a raw energy in the air—a palpable, jittery anticipation as the old guard of hip-hop production gets tossed aside by the relentless force of technological innovation and cultural upheaval.
At this year’s Grammy Awards in February, the narrative was tightly focused on rap’s prominence among nominees in the major categories after historically being overlooked. So when Bruno Mars, one of ...
He wrote and produced the Honey Drippers’ “Impeach the President,” which has been sampled countless times and changed the sound of New York rap. By Jon Caramanica Roy Hammond, a soul singer, ...
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