Run The Jewels has built a cult following by capturing the discontent of the poor and the oppressed. A new book looks at the music the duo has created and the political landscape from which it emerged.
Usher has been honored with the lifetime achievement award at the 2024 BET Awards. Childish Gambino, Coco Jones and Keke Palmer were part of a stacked all-star tribute to the R&B superstar.
If it could be summed up in a sentence: Rico Wade's "celebration of life" April 26 at Ebenezer Baptist Church was something Rico Wade would understandably not stop talking about. A U.S. senator eulogized him, the current and a former mayor of Atlanta shared their passionate remarks, the 52-year old was given the city's honor and it was announced that a music industry executive training program will be launched in his name.
A new Hulu documentary takes a look at the legendary street party Freaknik held in Atlanta during the 80s and 90s. "Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told" will touch on how the event started as a simple Atlanta Black college cookout during spring break but grew to draw thousands from across the United States.
On Sunday, Jay-Z accepted an honorary Grammy by taking gentle aim at the awards' failure to support Black musicians. "We want y'all to get it right — at least get it close to right" he said.
Killer Mike says an "over-zealous" security guard contributed to the physical altercation that led to his arrest after the rapper and activist won three awards at the Grammys. On Sunday, Mike was escorted in handcuffs by Los Angeles police at Crypto.com Arena after joyous moments for him at the Grammys' Premiere Ceremony, where he won his awards in quick succession.
Killer Mike was arrested on a misdemeanor at the Grammy Awards on Sunday after the rapper and activist won three Grammy awards including his first in more than two decades.
Hip-hop may have originated in New York, but the genre now finds many of its current hitmakers in Georgia. And there are at least 50 important moments in hip-hop involving the state's artists, record labels or just events that happened here.
Faith and religion have been career-long themes for the Run the Jewels rapper — if often in a wary, ambivalent light. But on Michael, his first solo LP in over a decade, something has changed.
Atlanta-based hip-hop artist Killer Mike joined a roster of other musicians calling out the Grammy Awards after his duo, Run the Jewels, did not receive a nomination for their album Run the Jewels 4, despite it receiving critical acclaim earlier in the year.
Grammy-winning rapper and social-political activist Killer Mike will receive the first Billboard Change Maker Award at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards.
While Michael "Killer Mike" Render stood next to the mayor and other city officials Friday, May 29, and pleaded for Atlantans to not "burn their own...
Rapper Michael Render, better known as Killer Mike, spoke Tuesday about the need for black grassroots activists to have support from their communities....
