Summer is officially here and the back half of 2025 kicks off with some projects hip-hop fans have been marking their ...

A pair of California rappers have been named to this year’s XXL Freshman Class. The hip-hop and rap-oriented outlet has been ...

The 2025 XXL Freshman class has been revealed. This year’s class includes breakout stars such as Gelo, Ray Vaughn, and Samara ...

On this chapter-book of a single, Samara Cyn makes full use of her unique voice, sharp and tangy, catching on its own outer edges in rap bars and sailing smoothly over R&B asides. Backed by a rich ...

Samara Cyn dropped her debut EP, The Drive Home. It apparently didn’t take her long to get going on another one, as she ...

This week's playlist includes Wednesday, Erykah Badu & The Alchemist, CMAT, Automatic, Baxter Dury, Guerilla Toss (ft Stephen ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay ...

June continues to be stacked with new hip-hop releases. This week, a veteran rapper from Chicago puts out his first indie ...

Grammy-winning jazz singer Samara Joy returns to Detroit for a concert at the Aretha Franklin Amphitheater on Wednesday, June 4. Joy will perform songs from her latest album, "Portrait," which ...

For their first collab track, current tourmates Samara Cyn and Smino have dropped off the bouncy “brand new teeth.” Cyn’s new project, Backroads, drops on June 20. Catalyzed from “organic ...

Samara Joy returns to new Orleans on June 1 for a concert at the Orpheum Theater. The Grammy-winning jazz vocalist released her third full-length album, "Portrait," last October.

Jazz singer Samara Joy will tour through Dallas next week, May 28, for her latest album, ... “There are certain songs that may be standard to some, but other people have never heard.