Recognize June 19 as a national holiday. Support black-owned businesses today and always. And brush up on your history. Those are some of the salient points made by Usher in a timely essay published in the Washington Post to coincide…
Social media and technology have become everyone’s go-to during the quarantine and social distancing caused by the coronavirus outbreak. Concerts are being held virtually, interviews are hosted on Instagram Live, and other apps, such as TikTok, have kept people entertained…
Baauer had no idea that his sophomore album, Planet’s Mad, would enter the world during nationwide protests and a global pandemic. The NYC-based, Philly-born producer (né Harry Rodrigues) was just trying to get in touch with his electronica roots. He…
Norwich’s Kulez makes smashing out raw-cut diamonds seem easy. New 4 track EP ‘White Blues Project’ is a brief breakneck journey through different instrumental textures for the MC to bomb his unique wordplay over. Stream the full project now. Apparently…
Jah Digga is no stranger to packing heavy messages into his bars, but ‘EVERYONE VS RACISM’ see’s him on particularly passionate form. This Swift Durti produced anthem for the Black Lives Matter movement is a clear demonstration of how the…
After notching his huge wins with DaBaby, Stunna4Vegas, and more with South Coast Music Group, Daud “King” Carter exclusively announces with Billboard his imprint Social Currency Enterprises’s partnership with EMPIRE. “At Social Currency, we’re all about development. Taking artists and…
Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau, a 19-year-old Black Lives Matter protester from Tallahassee, Fla., was found dead after she tweeted about being sexually assaulted and went missing for a week. The hashtag #JusticeForToyin began trending when photos and videos of Salau, a…
PPD Capt. Louis Campione during the standoff at Marconi Plaza on SaturdayTWITTER / @UR_NINJA The Philadelphia Police Department has reassigned a South Philly police captain who came under fire for his handling of the Christopher Columbus statue demonstrations in Marconi…
The music company is conducting a private offering to purchase senior notes due in 2023 with funds from sales of senior notes at a better interest rate due seven years later. Warner Music Group is trading old debt for new…