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Apr 20, 2023
Rodney "Darkchild" Jenkins
With his distinctive "Darkchild" tag introducing his presence on the track, prolific American producer, rapper, and songwriter Rodney...
Mar 8, 2023
Women's History Month - Revisiting: Rapsody - "Eve"
Eve (released August 23, 2019) In light of it currently being Women's History Month and International Women's Day, I felt it was only...
Feb 27, 2023
Revisiting: Kendrick Lamar - "To Pimp A Butterfly" (Album Review)
To Pimp A Butterfly (released March 16, 2015) As Black History Month begins to come to a close, I think it’s important to look back at...
Feb 15, 2023
Ranking The Best Andre 3000 Guest Verses
Hip-hop has its fair share of GOAT feature rappers. Off the top of my head, there’s Busta Rhymes, the OG guest verse murderer, Nas, DMX,...
Feb 9, 2023
10 Songs That Resonate With Iconic Scenes In Your Favorite Black Rom-Coms
A great song has the power to transport you back in time to the moment you first fell in love with it, and when the perfect song is...
Oct 24, 2022
Album Review: Jeezy - "Sno Fall"
Jeezy’s resurgence as one of the faces on Drug Rap’s Mount Rushmore is discussed with the rapper’s latest project, his eleventh studio...
Oct 17, 2022
Hip-Hop & R&B's Most Significant Directors
Although the landscape has shifted in how music videos are released, the memories of our favorite videos are the brainwork of some...
Oct 15, 2022
20 years later, 'Brown Sugar' is still a love letter to the Golden Age of Hip-Hop
Tuesday, (Oct. 11) marked the 20th anniversary of Brown Sugar, a film about childhood friends whose love blossoms in the warm embrace of...
Sep 15, 2022
Is R&B Officially Dead?
The past decade has been a tough time to be an R&B fan. It seems that as Rap has reached atmospheric heights, the once mighty genre of...
Sep 9, 2022
Album Review: Ari Lennox - "age/sex/location"
Days after releasing a surprise EP titled Away Message, the Dreamville songstress has returned with her highly-anticipated sophomore...
Sep 6, 2022
The Sophomore Album: Gift & Curse (R&B Albums)
That 'perfect' debut album can be a gift and a curse. It’s every emerging artists’ dream to burst on the scene with a heralded debut...
Sep 3, 2022
Album Review: Ari Lennox - Away Message (EP)
Three years since her debut album, Shea Butter Baby, the Dreamville songstress, Ari Lennox has returned with an EP release entitled, Away...
Aug 15, 2022
Bryan-Michael Cox
Grammy-award winning producer and songwriter, Bryan-Michael Cox is half man, half amazing. Responsible for decades of some of the...
Aug 15, 2022
VERZUZ
Super-producers, Timbaland and Swizz Beatz created the phenomenon webcast series entitled VERZUZ during the COVID-19 pandemic. A time...
Aug 15, 2022
Album Review: Tank - R&B Money
After two-plus decades in the music game, R&B singer, songwriter, and producer Tank is releasing what he claims is his final solo album...
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