It’s 7am and Maddie Lewis, 16, is eating cereal in self-absorbed delight. Ignoring my arrival, she doesn’t look up when I sit beside her at the kitchen table. Engrossed in her iPad, she ­replays over ...

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Gary rapper Freddie Gibbs won his first Grammy for featuring on Leon Thomas’ Mutt album and plans to donate the trophy to Hard Rock Casino. It was fate. Freddie Gibbs was walking his dogs in Los ...

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Leon Thomas' Mutt (Live from NPR's Tiny Desk) is now available on vinyl on Complex. The standard vinyl captures the raw energy of Thomas' Tiny Desk performance, which has racked up over four million ...

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Music legend Cher provided the most chaotic moment at today’s Grammy Awards, mistakenly announcing that one of the night’s biggest awards had gone to an artist who’s been dead for more than 20 years.

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This story originally appeared in the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of ESSENCE, on stands now. Leon Thomas has always carried himself with a quiet duality—musician and actor, dreamer and realist, ...