Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. This week, Alphonse meets ...

From Annenberg to Instagram, queerness becomes an object of close-reading, our eyes trained on the if of inner identity.

A few weeks ago, Pig posted a slideshow on Instagram of music videos she made in her early teens, back when she went by the name Lil Echo ... little A Boogie Wit da Hoodie or J.I the Prince ...

Baron Davis, the South Central L.A. legend, is navigating the transition of life after hoops with his second love: rapping.

Metta Sandiford-Artest never cultivated the lyrical sharpness expected from someone whose childhood babysitter was Roxanne Shante -- though he did possess a Lil B-like gift for bridging bizarre ...

When Gavin Pennington was a middle schooler, he and his little brother had pictures of the rapper Lil Baby as their phone ...