Interviews

From The Voice to finding her own—and everything in between. At 17, a young Koryn Hawthorne stepped onto The Voice stage with Pharrell Williams in her corner and a lifetime…

Some artists arrive with a sound. Others arrive with a story. Jenn Em has both. Long before Death Row Records, Los Angeles, West Coast hip-hop and the next chapter of…

Some artists arrive looking for a lane. Gifted Gab built her own street, painted the signs, and kept moving. Born Gabrielle Kadushin and raised in Seattle’s Central District, Gab came…

There was a time when music wasn’t fed to you by an algorithm. You found it on the radio, hunted for it in record stores, waited for the DJ to…

Some voices don’t just accompany a record—they become part of its identity. You hear them once, and decades later, they’re still right there. That’s Angela “Mecca” Redmon. Nearly 30 years…

Before R&B became something divided into eras, playlists and algorithms, some of its best music came from rooms you wished you could have been in. One of those rooms belonged…

Some R&B stories are remembered because the records became classics. Others linger because the records never got the chance. Sudden Impact belongs to that second category. Before the name changes,…

Imagine being born into a name the world already knows. For Landon Brown, eldest son of R&B icon Bobby Brown and Melika Williams Payne, that meant growing up with two…

Before social media retrospectives, anniversary think pieces and the long shadow of Tupac Shakur’s legacy, there was simply a teenage girl standing in front of a camera, carrying a story…