During what Guy Debord called the society of the spectacle, false desires are created, consumed and satisfied by the passive victims of capitalism. The dangerous appeal of gangsta rap became an ...

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Welcome to the Soulpolitan weekly feature, where we highlight the R&B singles worth your time. We’re going with a little R&B all the way through the picks this week: JID gets into an elaborate bit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Lalah Hathaway was traversing the enigmatic landscape of soul music in 2008, a terrain defined by its shifting rhythm and turbulent emotion. Self Portrait, her fourth studio release, would reflect a ...

It’s Thursday night, and the rappers are gathering in a health-food cafe in South Central, getting ready for the open mic. Afterward, some of them will go home and try to transcribe it all: Myka 9’s ...

In 1976, Melvin Lindsey, a Howard Student, took over WHUR’s late shift as a fill-in and just kept playing slow love songs to DC’s nocturnal listeners. Cathy Hughes, who ran the station, named the show ...