Tirhakah Love

In life and art, death was never far from Earl Simmons.

It’s no mistake that the music video for “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” begins with the country star perched under a tree with giant, bulbous apples. The scen…

For two decades, an honest exchange of ideas in black America has been discour­aged in the name of something called unity. Public disagreements have been...

The Mouse Roars June 21, 1994 Not yet a part of our genetic ma­terial, The Lion King wastes no time irradiating the universe. A blood...

Justice Is a Lady August 3, 1993 “This is not a ‘woman’s mov­ie,’ ” cautions John Singleton, 25, of his second feature. “Don’t say that...

A gift to be swift follow the leader the rhyme will go… Everybody has an opinion. MARLEY MARL: I think Eric B. went over the...

Writer Tom King weaves a tense whodunnit into a sometimes controversial plotline that examines the psychological turmoil beneath the costume, from PTSD to addiction

Picture This On the set, the street, and at dinner with X director Spike Lee November 10, 1992 At 6:58 on Tuesday, September 29, the...

Having invented this poll twice — in 1971 on my way out the Voice’s door and in revamped invitation-only form when I returned in 1974...

America’s critical establishment has spoken, naming Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” the top single of the year. All told, this year’s Pazz & Jop Music Critics...

Nearly 10 years since the Auto-Tune-targeting track, Jay’s career has taken on many forms. It took that long for him to learn how to age gracefully in hip-hop.

Marvel’s longest-running Netflix series evolved in its third season. But it isn’t as easy for a show to reflect the world’s constantly evolving politics as it would like.

For four decades, the Beastie Boys have proved to be masters of empty maximalism.

From Post Malone to Lil Dicky, a bro wave has crashed the shores of rap. But not every white rapper is comfortable with the idea. And maybe it needs to go altogether.

Miller’s catalog was varied, constantly improving and consistently rewarding. These are 10 songs to start with.

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Just saying “Nazis” works to absolve white people from engaging with America’s history of systemic racism.

There’s an unfortunate irony to the fact that Tyler, the Creator may have possibly been outed as gay or bisexual on the fifth anniversary of Frank Ocean’s 2012 record, Channel Orange. On Monday, headlines started flying around the internet that…

With a soundtrack lifted from New York’s ’90s heyday, Netflix’s Luke Cage upends the usual hip-hop narrative by bringing women to the fore.

The narrative of post-prison rap albums has long been determined by the threat of un-freedom.