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The jury deciding Lil Durk’s federal case in Los Angeles pushed into a second day of deliberations Thursday, with no verdict yet in sight.

Few record labels in the world can claim to have invented, shaped, and repeatedly reinvented an entire national music.

The reggae influence on hip-hop is not a footnote in music history. It is the founding chapter.

Sound system culture is one of the most consequential musical movements the modern world has produced.

Ask any serious musicologist where Afrobeats comes from, and you will hear the expected answers: Fela Kuti’s percussive legacy, the Lagos street hustle, the highlife traditions of Ghana.

Streamers have pulled up outside the Los Angeles courthouse where Lil Durk’s fate is now in the hands of a jury, and the scene is quieter than you might expect.

Sound clash explained in its simplest form: it is a structured musical competition in which two or more rival sound systems battle one another for crowd supremacy, with the objective of decisively “killing” the opposition.

Shaggy just dropped “Lottery,” a new collaboration with R&B singer Jeremih, and the pairing alone is enough to turn heads.

Naomi Cowan isn’t letting 2026 close out without giving *Welcome to Paradise* its proper flowers. The artist announced a new series called “Inside Paradise,” a week-by-week deep dive into every song on her JUNO Award-winning album, tracing each track back to where it came from.

Demarco didn’t waste words announcing his latest release just fire emojis, a gun, and the word “Murderer.”