Nice colors, cool clothes, and a cop show theme mark this Rik Cordero-directed video for "Renaissance Rap", a track yoked to "Move" on the fine new album The Renaissance.[The Renaissance is out now on Universal Motown]

Prince has stirred up quite a bit of Controversy lately, and with no albums or tours on the docket for the Purple One, we can only credit the craziness to Prince being Prince. There's so much insanity that it's a little hard to sort through. And yet, we've tried.The most scandalous news comes from a Prince profile and interview in The New Yorker...

After a ridiculously long and convoluted voyage, the former Tribe MC finally releases his first solo album in nine years-- and it's a tight refining of both classic boom-bap and fusion experimentalism.read more

We told you about the songs that came out supporting President-elect Barack Obama and, to an admittedly lesser extent, Sen. John McCain in the months before last Tuesday's election (man, was that really only a week ago?). In the days immediately ahead of the vote, other musicians continued to send in their ballots, including Usher, who put out a...

This slinky funk, sample-stitched new song from Q-Tip is pretty much the jam. "Life Is Better" features Norah Jones, she of cool covers and platinum wigged fame, singing the track's main motif as if she's already years deep in the new soul/hip-hop-hook racket. Actually it's NoJo's first second such collab, and she sorta dominates the playing tim...