STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Projectivity, a nonprofit organization with years of experience connecting youth with the Staten Island art and music community, finally has its own space on the North Shore.

Pardon the pun, but hip-hop music gets a bad rap. Perhaps it was the explosion of gangsta rap in the late 1980s and early ‘90s that fueled the negative stereotypes often associated with the genre and ...

Kids in bulletproof vests playing in a park. A bullet-riddled stop sign held by a crying child. A gun with its barrel tied in a knot. Messages like, “Be the good,” and, “Reach for the stars, not for ...

2008 was a productive year for Burnt MD. He released another excellent full-length album and appeared on Northampton-based collective The Problemaddicts’ top-notch regional compilation mixtape The ...