Photo: Gregory Shamus/ It looked like Kendrick was more interested in the aesthetics of the cover art of To Pimp a Butterfly than the acrimonious complaints of songs like “The Blacker the Berry.” ...

But long before this resurgence, one of the earliest jazz-infused Hip-Hop albums, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), was released by Brooklyn-based trio Digable Planets on this day in 1993 ...

On this date in 2000, Ghostface Killah of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan dropped his second full-length album, Supreme Clientele, ...

Just days after taking home five Grammy Awards, Kendrick Lamar is off to the Super Bowl. Lamar previously performed at the ...

"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

A History of Hip Hop Sampling with John Morrison and Josh Leidy is 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7 at Monmouth University in West Long Branch.

This is an updated version of a story that originally ran in 2017. Fellow New Jersey music diehards, this is it — the ultimate Garden State music bucket list: 51 Jersey albums that wholly define our ...

Central Cee Releases Can't Rush Greatness Album Central Cee has emerged as one of the U.K.'s brightest rap stars. After building a significant buzz over the past few years, the Columbia Records ...

Last year’s honorees were R.E.M. — who took the stage for their first performance together since 2008 — Steely Dan, hip-hop and R&B legend Timbaland and songwriters Hillary Lindsey (“Jesus ...

The 1954 'Oxblood' Gibson Les Paul was pictured on the cover of Beck’s classic 1975 album Blow By Blow. The guitar had a pre-auction estimate of £300,000 - £500,000. A representative of auctioneers ...

Last month, Blackpink’s ROSÉ unveiled her debut album rosie. Today, the South Korean girl group’s JENNIE announced her first solo LP Ruby, and it features Dua Lipa, Doechii, Childish Gambino ...

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