“I’m not just a hip-hop artist. I want the be best artist in the world. The only way I can do that is if I can show that I can do something other than rap. Hip-hop and country music both have the same base, which is storytelling,” BigXthaPlug told Popcast.

Looking for theater to stream? This month, check out “Hamilton” celebrating its 10th anniversary, and Michael Abbensetts’s play about the Guyanese community of London.

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“They don’t give these things out for dressing up as a garbage man and dancing to ‘Y.M.C.A.’” — Seth Meyers on President Trump’s remark that he’d always hoped to be a Kennedy Center honoree

We rounded up eight movies that our critics are talking about this week, including Spike Lee’s newest joint and Bob Odenkirk’s newest action outing.

Bobby Whitlock, who played keyboards with Derek and the Dominos, the 1970s supergroup featuring Eric Clapton, and also played on George Harrison’s 1970 tour de force triple album, “All Things Must Pass,” has died at 77.

Tiler Peck has curated a program of dances by Jerome Robbins at the Joyce Theater featuring casts of ballet luminaries and rising stars.

Decades-old tracks by artists like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, LL Cool J and Talking Heads are finding younger fans. Record labels are hoping new music videos will feed their interest.

Bob Odenkirk reprises his raging dad role in “Nobody 2.” Like many sequels, it ramps up everything, including the body count.

Molly Drake was an unsung yet profoundly moving poet, singer, pianist and composer whose melancholic songs hit on universal themes of despair, heartbreak, longing and loss. She was also the mother of the musician Nick Drake.

In its biggest art commission since 1949, St. Patrick’s Cathedral’s new mural celebrating immigrants hits a hot button.

George C. White, whose Eugene O’Neill Theater Center gave generations of budding playwrights a chance to try out their latest works — many of which went on to success in New York and elsewhere — has died at 89.

The French director Olivier Assayas’s “Suspended Time” is an elegiac story about two brothers returning to their family home during lockdown.

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It can feel overwhelming to watch a dance. But if you follow the path of the hands, they can unlock the mystery of a moving body.

Taylor Swift said on Wednesday that her newest album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” would be released on Oct. 3, sharing the details with her legion of fans on her social media accounts.

For “Highest 2 Lowest,” Spike Lee returns to New York City, reuniting with Denzel Washington as a big-time record exec, for a twisty parable about power and conscience.

“Yeah! Give him something stupid to do to keep him out of trouble. Hosting award shows is what he envisioned being president is in the first place," said Seth Meyers. Catch up on the Best of Late Night.

Nnamdi Asomugha’s taut thriller “The Knife” revolves around the interrogation of a Black family whose home has been invaded.

Taylor Swift and Drake, two of the biggest pop stars of the 21st century, recently promoted their albums in hourslong video conversations on streaming platforms, reflecting a shift in how the ultrafamous cultivate both casual and die-hard fans.

Live music has been booming for the past few years, bouncing back from pandemic shutdowns that shook the bedrock of the business. And an underrated touring market has been quietly gaining steam: hip-hop.

When the Butterfly Effect starts in The Country Of Beauty, it can reach all the way to Cannes Lions 2025. Humanimal Tourism returned with 2 Lions celebrating how creativity and nature can inspire the world to travel to Colombia.

The designers Mario Paglino and Gianni Grossi turned Barbies and other dolls into one-of-a kind works of art that sold for thousands of dollars. A married couple, they died in a car collision in Italy.