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In the fall of 2017, Mette Towley rehearsed a dance routine for the music video of “Lemon,” a song by Pharrell Williams’s group N.E.R.D. Towley, at the time, was a graduate of the University of ...

KIN tells the origin of making music to be something that started the day after he and a friend were talking about what it would take to make music. So they hopped on a bus to a store, pooled their ...

The context in which this album comes in is this: Tymain Robbins is a young, green North Carolina rapper who recently had his set at J. Cole’s Dreamville festival in Raleigh, complimented by Lu, with ...

Towards the end of 2018, KSI decided that a bunch of the rappers who gained popularity through YouTube were fake. Within a week, Quadeca answered with the diss track “Insecure,” garnering over 8 ...

After two years removed from the Grammy-winning Alligator Bites Never Heal (outside of “Anxiety” and “Girl, Get Up”), she announced her return to hip-hop on Instagram, describing herself as the Swamp ...

How should we approach it? It would be tough to explain how great D’Angelo’s singing is. Even if we focus on his high-pitched, falsetto-heavy style of singing and describe how sensual and lyrical it ...

It seems an odd choice for a jazz festival, even if Montreal is where she’s based, but Montreal booked Nyota Parker for the summer of 2025. Parker had been named Apple Music Up Next in South Africa ...

Danielle Ponder was a public defender in Rochester, New York, which means she stood in courtrooms and defended people who had already been charged with crimes. Her job was to stand in court and remind ...

On the subject of lineages, ALA.NI’s great-uncle Leslie Hutchinson emigrated to London from Grenada and became a cabaret star there in between the world wars. She herself was born in West London to ...

Skip Waiters runs his own life as a cable drama with an announcer, recaps, and a renewed season, keeping a showrunner’s power ...

Jaz Donell’s third Free the Slaves tape puts sin, poverty, and the system in the same chain, and his confessions of doubt and ...