Y'all know we heart some Aaliyah 'round here--and now thanks to Vh1 (and the magic of the internet) you can watch the full one-hour Behind The Music documentary on the definitive and much-missed diva, ...

This marks the Knicks’ first appearance in the NBA Finals in 27 years. The franchise last won a championship in 1973 with Hall of Famers like Earl “The Pearl” Monroe, WIllis Reed and Walt “Clyde” ...

Hindsight is crystal clear. Sure. But what the hell kind of laced blunts were those A&Rs smoking? Did they not hear “Dead Presidents” or “I Can't Get Wid Dat” or “In My Lifetime”? It doesn’t matter ...

Four days sitting with Frank Ocean 's Blonde behemoth and we're still unpacking its brilliance. Yesterday we brought you Frank's favorite song of all-time, as published in his Boys Don't Cry magazine.

Born the son of a Pentecostal minister, Michael D’Angelo Archer was destined to pursue a career in music. At the age of three, he began playing the piano by ear inside the Archer household. By five, ...

These iconic lines from the end of Warren G’s 1994 classic “Regulate” serve as a kind of credo for the g funk era. The popular subgenre of gangsta rap was all the rage in the mid-‘90s, and brought a ...

The new sexual anthem, which broke streaming records in its debut week, has caused conservative figures and politicians alike to openly speak out about an absence of respectability and conformity. But ...

Allegations of snitching have long been frustrating for Gunna, even before the trial. Several months after he was indicted as a part of a sweeping Racketeering case that involved 27 other defendants, ...

This article has been handpicked from the Okayplayer editorial archives and included in our Hip Hop 50 collection as a noteworthy inclusion to the genre's rich and diverse narrative. The article has ...

The late MF DOOM was denied re-entry into the United States after completing an European tour in late 2010. Joe Biden's inaugural playlist was recently released, and people were pretty surprised to ...

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Rick James' Street Songs, we spoke with engineer Rick Sanchez, who provided an incisive account of how this classic record came to fruition. Coming from ...

You saw Earth, Wind & Fire face off against the Isley Brothers on Verzuz. Now read about how the legendary collective recorded their seminal album I Am. While working as a session drummer for ...