Music

Janelle Monáe wants you to be happy. And then she wants you to fight.

Her new album, ‘Dirty Computer,’ is for women angry that ‘our existence doesn’t mean much to those in the position of power’

Superproducer Zaytoven’s gospel truth about trap music: It needs to be ‘spontaneous and unorthodox’

He’s a man of faith, plays the organ and the keytar — and creates huge hits with stars like Gucci Mane, Nicki Minaj and the Migos

Arian Foster shares the creative process of making an album

The retired NFL running back puts the full scope of his personality on his debut album: the writer, the thinker, the questioner, the pessimist and the nonbeliever

Arian Foster can rap. For real.

The retired NFL running back puts the full scope of his personality on his debut album: the writer, the thinker, the questioner, the pessimist and the nonbeliever

Exclusive: Why Beyoncé went with HBCUs at Coachella

‘Beychella’ showcases the fire of the black college experience with DRUMLine Live crew

Why Beyoncé should stop playing around with this On The Run and tour with a Destiny’s Child reunion instead

For a legion of millennials, the women of Destiny’s Child are their Supremes

Kendrick Lamar’s win proves black lives matter to the Pulitzer board

Or at the very least, the concept of black lives

All hail King Bey, queen of the desert and mistress of the internet

#Beychella served up a panoply of blackness, from HBCUs to Wakanda and Fela Kuti to Nina Simone