Ariana Grande’s unmistakable voice and unparalleled versatility have solidified her as one of the defining artists of our time. Beyond her soaring pop ballads and sultry R&B tracks, Grande has built a ...

Thirty-five years ago, Shawn Caesar, urban apparel retailer Downtown Locker Room's vice president of marketing, was a hip-hop and house music-loving Baltimore teenager who fervently believed that the ...

Something interesting is happening in the “Progressive R&B” category at this year’s Grammy Awards. Four of the six nominated albums contain songs that bear the unmistakable rhythmic signature of a ...

It was been well over 30 years since Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest said, “Rap is not pop if you call it that then stop” on the pioneering quartet’s seminal 1991 single “Check The Rhime.” In the ...

A new album from hip-hop artists Jason Chu, Alan Z and Humble the Poet tackles Asian American history and spotlights the Asian hip-hop community. "Listening to this album is kind of like the reminder ...

When Mohamed Moretta read New Times‘ recent story remembering the Beat Club, a strip-mall hot spot in Westchester that once hosted big-name acts such as Gloria Gaynor and Exposé, he noticed something ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The heavy-hitting and often spontaneous style of Hip Hop that gets audiences grooving doesn’t really match with the buttoned-up, formal setting performances opera singers ...

"Hip-pop Princess" stoked full-fledged anticipation by pre-releasing episode 1. The show, Unpretty Rapstar: Hip-pop Princess (hereafter "Hip-pop Princess"), which premieres at 9:50 p.m. on Thursday ...