Brother Ali
Stream of the Crop: 8 New Albums for Heavy Rotation 5/6
A marquee week for indie rock has new records from Mac DeMarco, Black Lips, and Cayetana.
Rhymesayers Entertainment Is Never Going Out of Style
The independent Minneapolis hip-hop label's 20th anniversary concert was a victory lap with performances from Atmosphere, Brother Ali, I Self Divine, Dilated Peoples, Dem Atlas, Grieves, and many more.
One Love: Hip Hop's in a Transition Between Materialism and Idealism
From groups like Souls of Mischief and A Tribe Called Quest, and nurtured by artists like Lil B and Kendrick Lamar, rap could soon experience its second spiritual revolution.
MaLLy and the Sundance Kid: "Winner"
MaLLy and the Sundance Kid put out their third single from 2012s "The Last Great".
Brother Ali and the Secret Islamic History of Hip-Hop
Meeting Brother Ali after his tour’s stop in Chapel Hill, I didn’t ask him for his “How did you come to Islam?” story, and he didn’t ask for mine, but our shared matrix of references and anecdotes told me that we might have walked similar paths.