Best Rap Performance and Best Music Video. With these accolades, “Not Like Us” joins the ranks of Childish Gambino’s “This is America” as one of the only rap songs in history to win the ...

Although the Grammy Awards came out in 1959, the Recording Academy didn’t debut the Best Rap Performance award until 1989, a year in which it was awarded to DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince for ...

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2025 is already delivering great new music from China, some of which reflects a semi-global mood at the moment. Chengdu-based artist Xinwenyue Shi’s bilingual Sichuan-English hip hop single “Clouds,” ...

But all is not well. “There are legends of people with the gift of making music so true, they can conjure spirits of the past and the future,” hoodoo woman Miss Annie (Wunmi Mosaku ...

Oh this is just delightful: for the opening of his documentary film on the history of music on SNL he co-directed with Oz Rodriguez, Questlove produced what the NY Times calls “a high-speed, ...

It wasn’t so much the content of Romesh’s mix bus that ended up being useful to me, but those sage bits of advice you can only get from living and breathing music production for years that I’ve held ...

Unkovski’s music-soaked, delightfully humorous and unpretentiously ... From the onset, Unkovski introduces a rich soundtrack that mixes modern English-language songs with tracks specific to ...

25, 2025. A festival aimed at amplifying Black music and artists, returns to Charlotte this weekend, as the annual Black Notes Project makes its second appearance, celebrating jazz music.

25, 2025. A festival aimed at amplifying Black music and artists, returns to Charlotte this weekend, as the annual Black Notes Project makes its second appearance, celebrating jazz music. The event ...

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Kendrick Lamar—it’s easy to forget that the sounds pushing rap music forward often come from ... the trends of the current wave—distorted mixes, trippy melodies and endless layers of ...