NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with correspondent Anthony Kuhn and then Victor Cha, the Center for Strategic and International Studies Senior Adviser, about the latest in North Korea.

The compilation features original songs by Nas, Erykah Badu, Pusha T, Jeremih, French Montana and more.

With every song or visual, you see another corner of KAMAU's mind light up. The soul jazz-inspired "Jusfayu" is about a one-way romance, with an aggressive and heavily symbolic video.

The singer-songwriter faces her fears with a jazz standard about a love that once was. "[I] couldn't think of having a more proper goodbye to that home and chapter of my life than this video."

It takes a lot of moxie to cover a song by pop powerhouse Adele at this moment in time, let alone do so triumphantly, yet KAMAU is tenacious and talented enough to pull it off. For his latest Soundcloud post, the young soul singer takes a stab at the British ...

There's an uncertainty, unshakable at first sight, which comes with saving yourself from someone you love — that sliver of doubt about whether your choice was the right one. Daniel Caesar is a Toronto-native who left his home while in the 11th grade, after a fight with his parents over ...

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Alessia Cara –19-year-old singer-songwriter from Brampton, outside Toronto – is lightly famous. She's a wearable degree of known due ...

NPR Music contributor Erika Ramirez charts the viral ascent of Drake's new music video — and some of the conversations flourishing in the background.