What Is Musical Genre Exactly?
Billboard's decision to remove Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" from its country chart exposes how artists' race and class—more than their sounds—have always defined genre.
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Girl Ultra Is Taking Mexican R&B Beyond the Border
Operating out of Mexico City, Nan de Migel is one of the few artists producing contemporary R&B south of the U.S. border
PS Picks: Blood Orange’s Deconstruction of Masculinity
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
The Selling of Two Timberlakes
A look at Justin Timberlake's rare flexibility in self-fashioning—a flexibility that his idols didn't always enjoy.
How TLC Changed Everything
On the eve of the group's final release, a look back at how the pioneering female R&B group represented for black women everywhere.