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Unbothered
Ladies, Leave Your Man At Home & Go See Usher In Vegas
Ineye Komonibo
Jul 26, 2023
Somos Latinx
Ahead of His
La Vida Es Una
Tour, Myke Towers Preps for His Next Album
Brenda Barrientos
Jul 18, 2023
Unbothered
The Artists Who Made Us Fall In Love With Hip-Hop (Even When It Didn’t Love Us ...
R29 Unbothered
Jul 11, 2023
Festivals
AT&T Dream In Black Celebrated Hip-Hop’s 50th Anniversary a...
The Essence Festival of Culture, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, has long been hailed as a vibrant celebration of Black culture, music, and art. This year,
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Sandy Pierre
Unbothered
Takeoff Would’ve Been So Proud Of The Migos Reunion At The ...
Sunday’s 2023 BET Awards were one big block party as the music industry gathered at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles to celebrate the 50th anniversar
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Ineye Komonibo
Entertainment
I Want To Take Confidence Lessons From Kim Petras
Kim Petras has what she calls a “delusional side.” “I remember being 12, waking up and being like, ‘I now declare this my job. I am a songwriter, a
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Annie Black
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Unbothered
How Black Women In Hip-Hop Changed The Way We Talk About AIDS
Hip-hop has had a relationship with HIV/AIDS since Reagan created the crack epidemic in the 1980s. The genre, born out of necessity and fight, never shied
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Taylor Crumpton
Unbothered
Big Freedia Is Living Out Loud & Claiming Her Season
It doesn’t matter how you are introduced to Big Freedia. Whether you were first greeted by her recent single “$100 Bill,” her explosive feature on Be
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Niki McGloster
Unbothered
Tina Turner Brought Rock & Roll Back Home To Black Women
Black women like Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Big Mama Thornton, and Betty Davis were the vocal bibles for rock and roll. These Black women, along with others li
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Taylor Crumpton
Unbothered
I Went To Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour & Here’s Everything You Need...
Beyoncé kicked off her highly-anticipated Renaissance World Tour this week in Stockholm, Sweden and it has already been declared “the greatest pop sho
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Alexis Jackson
Entertainment
Coachella Brought Diverse Headliners To The Desert, So What’...
On Friday night, Bad Bunny (aka Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) made history at Coachella, and not with a new collab or hit song (he has plenty to choose
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Katherine Singh
Entertainment
Coachella 2023 Is Here: This Is Everything We’re Excited For
Spring has officially sprung, which can only mean one thing: It’s *officially* festival season. Weekend 1 of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
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Katherine Singh
Somos Latinx
Despite Making Music For A Decade, Ravyn Lenae Is Just Getting St...
At age 24, Ravyn Lenae has spent nearly a decade in the music industry. By the time many of us discovered her through her second EP in 2018 — Crush, the
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Ashley Garcia Lez...
Unbothered
Why Do So Many Black Women Keep Working With Chris Brown?
There was controversy recently directed toward R&B singer Chlöe Bailey, of Chlöe x Halle fame, after she announced that her latest single “How Does
by
Hanna Phifer
Unbothered
Low Energy Or Legendary? Fans Are Divided Over Rihanna’s Super Bo...
Whether you care about football or not, you have to acknowledge that performing at the Super Bowl is a high honor that many musicians aspire to. That stage
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Ineye Komonibo
Unbothered
Team Unbothered On The Struggle To Secure Beyoncé Tickets
All my life, I’ve had to fight. Is that the infamous line from Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (immortalized by Oprah and Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright
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Ineye Komonibo
Unbothered
Salt-N-Pepa Celebrate Hip-Hop Turning 50 & Talk Navigating The Ge...
All year, as the music world looks back on hip-hop for its 50th anniversary, we’re going to hear about the contributions from the genre’s most celebrat
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Kathleen Newman-B...
Unbothered
Beyoncé Doesn’t
Need
The Album Of The Year Grammy (But She...
At last night’s 65th Annual 2023 Grammy Awards, Beyoncé won her 32nd Grammy and became the most awarded artist in Grammy history, but she should have en
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Ineye Komonibo
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Entertainment
All The Best Red Carpet Looks From The 2023 Grammy Awards
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Millie Roberts
Unbothered
UK R&B Is Thriving — So Where Is The Recognition?
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Maxine Harrison
Sex Toys
See Fireworks At Midnight With R29’s Sexy NYE Playlist & Lo...
I know it’s not just me when I say it’s been a stressful year. Between COVID resurgences, billionaire takeovers of social media, and whatever t
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Charlotte Lewis
Gift Guides
15 Gifts For The K-Pop Stan In Your Life (No Matter Who They Stan)
Do you have a person in your life who’s been diagnosed with a K-Pop obsession? Whether it’s BTS or Blackpink, there are so many options out the
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Mercedes Viera
Unbothered
Actually, Drake Has A Long History Of “Nice Guy” Miso...
On Friday, November 4, Drake threw the timeline into a tizzy with the release of Her Loss, a 16-song joint project with friend and fellow rapper 21 Savage.
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Ineye Komonibo
Unbothered
Hip-Hop Didn’t Kill Takeoff — What We’re Getting Wrong About Rap ...
Hearing Migos’ “Fight Night” for the first time on a concrete party basement floor in 2014 made the room around me feel like it was levitating. Takeo
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Taylyn Washington...
Unbothered
Every Song You’re Obsessed With On The
Wakanda Forever
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Ineye Komonibo
Unbothered
Meet Lakeyah, Your Fave Rap Girls’ Favorite Rapper
What do Latto, Flo Milli, City Girls, and Gloss Up have in common? They all are featured on songs with 21-year-old rapper Lakeyah. The Atlanta-based, Milwa
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Alexis Jackson
Somos Latinx
Tego Calderón Dropped
El Abayarde
20 Years Ago — & It̵...
Few record drops raise the hair on my neck like the high-pitched staccato boom intro of “Pa’ Que Retozen,” the landmark lead from Tego Calderón’s
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Marjua Estevez
Unbothered
The Drought Is Over: Rihanna & SZA Are Back With New Music
It’s been a thousand long years since some of our faves dropped music — okay, I’m exaggerating — but 2022 is remedying the gaping hole in our heart
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Ineye Komonibo
Music
iLe Invites Us All To Say “Nacarile”
Puerto Rican artist iLe is not one for half-hearted attempts. Ever since she debuted her brawny voice as a teenager singing with Calle 13, she has moved wi
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Frances Solá-Sant...
Unbothered
Dear Cardi, Nicki & JT: We Want Diss Tracks, Not Tweets
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (if you have, can I join you?), you know some of our favorite rappers have been in the news for their antics. And
by
Shanetta McDonald
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