Music

Houston’s 713 Day celebrates its often overlooked hip-hop culture

Slim Thug, Paul Wall and Lil Keke, among others, performed after yearlong coronavirus pandemic restrictions

Working on Dying and Lil Uzi Vert energize ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ soundtrack

Production team Working on Dying endeavored to make a legacy score – and succeeded

Verzuz cannot keep giving a platform to alleged abusers

The goodwill is lost if its creators do not do better

T-Pain popularized Auto-Tune, but it came at a cost

His comments on Usher reveals an even harsher truth in T-Pain’s career

The Harlem Cultural Festival footage is getting wider recognition in the new ‘Summer of Soul’ documentary

Questlove premiered his documentary in Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park, where the festival was held in 1969

How Verzuz is bridging the musical generation gap

The legends of the past get a cultural resurgence and a connection to younger generations

The 50th anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On’

A look back at how Gaye earned a tryout for the Detroit Lions

For Shock G, the man who made room for everyone on the dance floor

‘The Humpty Dance’ helped fat girls feel entitled to pleasure, even as we debate the latest unauthorized bikini pic of a Kardashian

An entire generation owes DMX for his lesson in resilience

He defied expectations during an era when the public and media weren’t kind to his struggles with drug addiction