Music

After his brief stints in the Basketball Africa League and Canadian Elite Basketball League, J.Cole is making the leap to the NBA — well, kinda. The rapper is set to become a minority owner in the Charlotte Hornets after NBA legend Michael Jordan announced that he was selling the franchise …

Gunna has released a new album, A Gift and a Curse, marking his first major project since his release from jail following his plea in the YSL gang case. The 15-track album is a fully solo affair with no features. On several songs, Gunna appears to address his arrest, the …

Lady Gaga is giving her Little Monsters a life update. On Friday, the singer shared a photo of herself sitting in front of a TV with a frame from her now-confirmed Chromatica Ball film, letting fans know she’s been producing music for a “special project” and focusing on Joker 2, …

In the Aughts, Killer Mike was a fiery maelstrom, the South’s answer to Ice Cube, and an Atlanta polemicist comfortable with both dope-boy fantasies and bruising Black politics. But it’s been eleven years since R.A.P. Music, a classic pairing with rapper/producer El-P that inspired the two to form the world-conquering …

On her latest single “Can You Believe,” Norah Jonas wants to know that she isn’t invisible or alone. Co-written with producer Leon Michels, the record arrives ahead of the singer’s extensive summer tour through Europe. The trek is scheduled to begin on July 5 in France. “Tell me you can …

A rapper escaping difficult circumstances to triumph as an artist is a deeply American story and a hip-hop archetype. French Montana is expanding that dynamic with For Khadija, a documentary about his family’s 1996 emigration from Morocco to the Bronx. The documentary, debuting at the Tribeca Film Festival tonight, chronicles …

Tate McRae released her debut album last year, titled I Used to Think I Could Fly. The record itself features soaring highs, like the envy-heavy single “She’s All I Wanna Be,” and emotional lows, such as “Feel Like Shit.” She wasn’t sure if she could fly then, but now she’s …

Ally Brooke wants to set the record straight: Céline Dion never rolled up her car window while she belted out the lyrics to “I Surrender.” In fact, the girl in the now-viral video wasn’t even her. An edited video clip of a fan singing to Dion outside of her black …

Sigur Rós will rise from their slumber (at least as far as studio recordings go) this week to release Átta, their first LP since 2013’s Kveikur. The group previewed the record earlier this week with the release of the song, “Blóðberg.” The surprise release, announced only one day in advance, …

“Just what is Kesha trying to say?” is the prevailing question surrounding the pop star’s new album, Gag Order, which is something like a Rosetta Stone of tumult created in the wake of her long-running legal battle with music producer Dr. Luke. The new video for the album’s single “Only …