*Grammy-winning producer 9th Wonder graduated from North Carolina Central University on May 9 – then stood proudly at Winston-Salem State University one week later to watch his daughter Jada collect ...

The legendary producer broke down how streaming, aging artists, and multi-generational audiences have reshaped hip-hop while weighing in on Drake's continued dominance.

Pre glow-up Drake teamed up with Phonte and Elzhi for this one, but the dazed soul of it all makes it just as good without the bars. Sorry guys. The winding strings here sound like uncoiled memories, ...

Nearly every variation on the tale of Little Brother’s collapse involves miscommunication: As Phonte and Pooh admit, they probably weren’t very clear with 9th Wonder about their expectations for his ...

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Or at least that’s what I said to myself midday last Wednesday as I was standing in the parking lot of the Cat’s Cradle, mingling with some of the artists who would later take the stage to support 9th ...

Tomorrow will mark the 20th anniversary of The Listening, the debut album by North Carolina group Little Brother. The 18-track project is a charismatic lyrical exercise that sounds as fresh today as ...

His beats tend to marry raw, air-popping drums — which sound like they’re being beatboxed through wet lips — with yearning howls from old gospel records. And over the years the results from this ...

DOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM TODAY, YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN A NEW MURAL. ONE ARTIST IS COMMEMORATING LOCAL MUSICIAN NINTH WONDER WITH THIS MASTERPIECE ON TRADE AND LIBERTY. SCOTT PERKINS SAYS IT’S BEEN HIS LIFE ...