Six years after her last album, the heralded artist returned with a genre-blending project rooted in clarity, elevation, and ...

This is a song I made today while working on other songs, just purely for fun while I took a break from the original project.

Homeboy Sandman would presumably disagree with the philosophy of lunatic jazz tutor Terence Fletcher—there are more harmful things you can offer a person than gentle encourageme ...

Clinton is the leader of two important funk bands, Parliament and Funkadelic. In 1975, Parliament released Mothership Connection, a loose concept album about funk musicians as galactic invaders.

A federal judge in California is set to rule this fall on whether the foundational Fish Market riddim, better known as Dem ...

Other Christian rappers, many of whom also rap in Hindi and English, have drawn a following online, including Raushan Bhairamadgi (or RJBMADZ), Roshan Tony, Joy Punekar, Isaac Dailey, Sheldon Bangera, ...

The use of alter egos in rap can be traced back to the 1980s — and, over the decades since, has helped rappers tap into new flows and fresh creative ideas. An alter ego serves as a way for an artist ...

Songwriter Tom Lehrer, who died July 26, was once considered the sharpest voice in political satire. Why did he stop writing?

South African actress Anele Zondo known as Ney the Bae, earned praise after showing off her rapping skills while previewing ...

They spun art-school punk-funk into legit pop hits—and thirty-five years after they called it quits, they might be hipper ...

Tom Lehrer, the renowned Cold War-era musical satirist whose jaunty and grim show tunes inspired generations, has died. Per ...

In a surprising cultural crossover moment, Lehrer once sent a handwritten letter to 2 Chainz after learning the rap artist had sampled his music for the 2012 song “Dope Peddler.” ...