Music

The show breaks down how Public Enemy’s “Black Steel in the Hours of Chaos” perfectly captures the horrors of mass incarceration.
/ June 22, 2023
8th Annual Black Music Honors
Rapper Juvenile taped a performance of “NPR Tiny Desk” with special guests Mannie Fresh, Jon Batiste, and Trombone Shorty.
/ June 22, 2023
Artists are always using new ways to promote their music and gain popularity. Find out how fan response got one artist to change his mind…
/ June 22, 2023
Big Pokey dies
An autopsy report for Houston rapper Big Pokey, who died during a performance Sunday night, did not list his cause of death.
/ June 22, 2023
In honor of Black Music Month, theGrio examines whether Black artists are selling out when they make pop music.
/ June 21, 2023
Doggystyle, Snoop Doogg, theGrio.com
The debut solo album from Snoop Dogg was the most can’t-miss album of 1993 — even though it came out at the end of the year.
/ June 21, 2023
Hip-hop, you don’t stop! Listen up as Dozie Ezemma and Jahliel Thurman discuss the top rap LPs to hit the scene in the 1990s.
/ June 21, 2023