Music

Globally, black artists are known to be the gatekeepers of genres like Rap, Rhythm and Blues, Jazz

and Soul; with genres such as Soca, Reggae, Dancehall, Afrobeats and the British originated Grime also having become more popular as of late. However, the stringent barriers that black music and artists are typically sorted into have definitely been called into question more recently with artists like Tyler the Creator (calling out the categorising his album ‘Igor’ as Rap and the use of the word ‘Urban’), Lil Nas X (broke into the Country charts with ‘Old Town Road’) and the new generation of alternative rap artists which includes music with indie/rock-rap sounds as has been heard from artists like Juice Wrld, Lil Uzie Vert, Travis Scott etc.

Black people and artists are always reminding the world how multifaceted we are when it comes to our musical preferences. Black people do not just listen to rap music; not all black people like rap music. Shocking. Our aim is to cover and explore the wide range of genres covered by, and influencing artists of colour, with the objective of hopefully expanding all of our music libraries.