Music

Kendrick Lamar plans to bring major concerts to Africa through new Global Citizen initiative

The ‘unseen VJ’ describes how BET’s ‘Rap City’ got off the ground

Alvin Jones used a string of specials over school vacations as the foundation for the network’s long-running show

Drake made an album for the Kevin Samuels generation

On ‘For All the Dogs,’ Drake continues to regress into misogyny

Usher and Erykah Badu show us fashion’s video game moment

Those oversize pieces and eye-popping colors are moving from our phones to the runway

Last living suspect in 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur indicted on murder charge

Beyoncé’s journey to mastery

As the Renaissance World Tour comes to a close, one of Beyoncé’s early collaborators looks back on her career

Jann Wenner stopped the gaslighting. Let’s be thankful.

After his insulting interview, we’re freer to make a better world of music journalism

Tony! Toni! Toné! is back — and it feels good

The group talks about their new tour, why they broke up, and what brought them back together

Here’s why Usher should headline the Super Bowl halftime show

The R&B superstar has done nearly everything. Except this.