At last, the Grammy-nominated songwriter and singer is dropping her debut album. Is she ready for stardom?

Rico Wade, one-third of the legendary Atlanta production group Organized Noize and a founding member of the Dungeon Family, died Saturday. He was 52. From the legendary dungeon of his mother’s home...

On her triumphant new album, the music icon embraces the Black women and Black queer artists who shaped dance music. Category is: liberation.

“This project is basically unburdening myself a little bit from the things that I thought I had to care about or the things that I thought I needed to do to be happy and be successful.”

Rapper Rich Homie Quan, the rhymer, son, brother, father and former baseball star who helped shaped the Atlanta rap scene died at 34.

Today, Atlanta R&B singer is a model, actor and mother who still records and tours.

Console by 2ndbdrm, a new vinyl listening bar, wants to be more than just another store in Atlanta. It strives to be an experience for music discovery and a hub for creatives in the city.

The endlessly energetic rapper performed his first hometown concert since being arrested in the YSL case.

While the trial’s full effect on Atlanta’s rap scene has yet to be seen, those within it are hopeful that Atlanta won’t lose sight of its rap dominance, despite recent blows.

“If I can sell (my home), I’ll sell, but I can do anything about it,” a resident said Wednesday. “Who wants a house in a flooding zone? Nobody.”

In a new Audible project, the Grammy-winning singer discovered her own strength while sharing the most intimate aspects of her life.

With her latest album, "Real B*tches Don't Die," Southern rapper Kari Faux explores loss, grief, and her newfound love with producer Phoelix.

“If you look at the bottom of my album covers, it’s the Belleville flag colors---the black, green, yellow, white,” Sir Eddie C said. “...that was a conscious decision I made to always tip my hat to...

Within a week of being inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, Allen Iverson's unique journey to greatness is one to be reflected.

With a new album and a new tour underway, the Chicago singer and rapper reflects on her extensive career in R&B, industry woes and what’s next.

Read DeAsia Paige’s review of the album.

Welcome to the first installment of Heat Check, a biweekly music column where AJC culture reporter DeAsia Paige explores the temperature of Georgia’s buzzing, expansive music scene. The column will...

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Atlanta-based R&B crooner Jacquees grows his business outside of music with the opening of new Stonecrest lounge.

“Everything we’re doing, we want to do it from a place of honesty.”

Teen Vogue talked to author Nadirah Simmons about how her debut novel preserves female Hip-Hop history.

British trio FLO might have the answer.

"This is the birth of a new Black renaissance in the city of East St. Louis," East St. Louis Mayor said

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is pleased to announce that DeAsia Paige has been named its Atlanta Culture reporter.

The Alabama-born rapper talks about her debut album, her love for reality television, and the power of manifestation.

Skate City will celebrate its 20th anniversary in November

If the singer’s 2013 self-titled album was rooted in women embracing their imperfections and owning their sexual autonomy, then its 2016 follow-up saw her embarking on a transformative healing...

For 30 years, Mary J. Blige has encouraged Black women’s healing. For this Girls United contributor, the icon's music helped her heal from an abortion.

“I look at it as me paying it forward because I’ve been doing music since I was 12, and I wish somebody would’ve given me game beforehand,” Anthony Lucius said.

Roughly seven years ago, Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and Dmitri Gaskin both occupied the niche space of performing klezmer music, a type of Eastern European Jewish folk music, while living in the...

She wields her anxieties with masterful storytelling on her latest album.

A friend recently pointed out to me that I pick at my nails when I’m anxious. Not sure when I started that habit, but I’ve learned that looking at the length of my nails is a barometer for how I’m...

Since 2019, Baby Rose's raspy tone has made her one of music's most exciting and distinctive voices. She crafted that sound in Atlanta.

“All 89 Blocks,” the artist said. “Everyone is a champion. No matter what you got yourself into in life, you can triumph and be great.”

Spotify announced a slate of programs designed to create opportunities in audio media for students at Spelman College during the streaming service’s first-ever Creator Day, which was held at the...

Donald Glover talks with the AJC about his extensive Atlanta ties as he takes his Childish Gambino persona out for one last spin, the tour coming to Atlanta on Labor Day.

Beginning when she was an undergraduate at Spelman College, Jennifer Freeman Marshall has devoted most of her academic career to exploring the anthropology of Zora Neale Hurston.

After amassing over 30,000 retweets of his bracket of Kanye West songs, Kansas City's 610 Sports Radio host Carrington Harrison reflects on the success of his viral bracket.