It's so on brand for our musical fairy godmothers to sprinkle a little love over us with a self-affirming bop.

Gen Z Americans are experiencing inflation in different and sometimes surprising ways.

With fewer assets to erode, and flexibility to change jobs, Gen Z is positioned well for inflation, but that's not how they're seeing it.

Inflation is on everyone's minds right now. Gen Z Americans are experiencing it in different and sometimes surprising ways.

In a new memoir, Lisa McNair recounts growing up in Birmingham, Ala., after her sister Denise and three other Black girls were murdered in the 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church.

Ray Meezy and D~collins are small town rappers with ambitions and skills to take them much farther than their hometown of Greenwood, S.C.

Millions of students have received federal aid through the Pell Grant. NPR wants to hear about how the money affected your college experience.

Hype instrumentals, with deeply perceptive lyrics that often straddle confidence and arrogance, have become synonymous with EARTHGANG.

The lyrics of this lullaby-like Tiny Desk Contest entry are sung like a mantra of affirmations.

However it's happened to you, in romantic, platonic or familial love, this artist's therapeutic vocals vividly express the frustration of dealing with someone who only shows up when they need you.

This artist performs surrounded by colorful balloons, a confetti-covered cake and party hats in her groovy Tiny Desk Contest entry.

This is Kimiko's first time entering the Tiny Desk Contest, but – observing her steady and effortlessly commanding demeanor and voice – you'd never know it.

When Jade Jacobs strikes a jazzy melody on her keyboard, everything in her Tiny Desk Contest entry changes.

From a silly thematic intro to the song's cheeky and relatable lyrics, this Tiny Desk Contest entry is a charming, fully entertaining production.

In this Tiny Desk Contest entry, Devin's soft pop-meets-R&B instrumentals feel like the foundation of a home, and Tori's soulful vocals are its building blocks.

Allison Mahal's soothing vocals are a bittersweet contrast to the melancholy of the song in her Tiny Desk Contest entry.

With an assist from Baby Tate, EARTHGANG satirizes pop culture's backhanded glorification of Black women.

The Canadian rapper and singer revels in his success with friends who've been grinding with him from the start.

The two Lone Star State artists join forces once again on the EP Texas Moon, which begins with a slow and heavy song that breathes sensuality (with an emphasis on the "B" in R&B).

A bonus Heaux Tales track, "Hurt Me So Good" narrates the perils of staying in a relationship bad enough to make you question your worth but just good enough to make you stay despite the drama.