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Black Music Month 2024: The New Guardians of Rock


These artists prove that Black creativity still has a place within the genre.

The band's guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter contributed to modern classic songs like “Hold On” alongside “This Feeling.” Once the group went on indefinite hiatus, Howard released her 2019 debut as a solo artist through Jaime. His last full-length album, "White Jesus Black Problems," explores themes of racism, capitalism, and freedom, inspired by his seventh-generation grandparents' interracial romance in 1750s Virginia. Though Willow Smith was already a pop star in the making with two famous parents before entering adulthood, the multi-hyphenate creative went through some reinventions before becoming the face of Black Gen-Z-ers’ reclamation of rock.

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