Music

Roddy Ricch collects six Grammy nominations and a history of sorrow

Buffeted by Nipsey Hussle’s death, he still had a No. 1 song and album in a year shortened by the pandemic

Memphis Grizzlies to celebrate legendary Isaac Hayes with special uniforms

The team will wear ‘Memphis Soul City Edition’ uniforms during the season

2 Chainz — full circle

The Grammy-award winning rapper shares how his long-standing basketball dreams finally came true

The all-around game of 2 Chainz

The rapper could have ended up as just another one-hit wonder, but his community didn’t let that happen

As The Notorious B.I.G. enters the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a look back at ‘Ready to Die’

Biggie’s first album dropped the same day as the notorious Crime Bill

Whitney Houston deserves better than the Hall of Fame

And Black women deserve better than rock ’n’ roll’s lies

Bloody police assault on Miles Davis feels like it could have happened yesterday

The 1959 attack outside a jazz club was a rare instance in which police brutality against a Black celebrity was widely covered

Aux Cord Chronicles XXI: Your Election Day soundtrack

The emotions we carry with us in the voting booth have always been in the music

Curtis Mayfield created a hybrid of spirit and soul that became the soundtrack for a movement

Mayfield demurred when folks tried to label him a protest singer. Yet he never stopped producing politically charged tunes.