This part frames hip-hop not simply as a genre, but as a living cultural system rooted in African diasporic traditions of oral history, rhythm, improvisation, and communal exchange.

This part affirms Black music as history itself: a living organism that continues to grow, respond, and create new forms of expression with each generation.

Plunky & Oneness strike out in surprising new directions, taking their progressive jazz-funk sensibilities into the dance club environment with a deep house and other remixes of their “I’ll Be There” single. Music critics have hailed legendary saxophonist-vocalist James “Plunky” Branch as a vanguard of Afro-centric jazz – curating a myriad of musical forms from funk and R&B to house and go-go into a progressive message of empowerment, positivity, and cultural awareness. Plu