Writing

Features

Is This What R&B Sounds Like When You Don’t Respect Women? • Hammer & Hope

The Death of Layleen Cubilette-Polanco of the House of Xtravaganza • Vogue

Get to Know Amaarae, Who’s Expanding the Sound of Afropop • Pitchfork

Interviews

Kehlani’s Biggest Hit Came a Decade Into Her Career. It’s Right on Time • Rolling Stone

Ryan Coogler on What ‘Sinners’ Says About Hip-Hop and Exploitation • Rolling Stone

Rico Nasty on the Revival of Women in Rap • Vogue

Criticism

What Do We Really Want From Chris Brown? • Rolling Stone

Vince Staples’s Cry Baby: Review • Pitchfork

Jazmine Sullivan’s Heaux Tales: Review • Pitchfork