Lil Baby performs during a Juneteenth voter registration rally on June 19, 2020 at Murphy Park Fairgrounds in Atlanta, Ga. One week earlier, he released "The Bigger Picture," a song protesting police brutality. Paras Griffin/Getty Images hide caption
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Wye Oak's "Fortune" is one of NPR Music's top 16 songs of the month. Kendall Bailey Photography/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Ms. Lauryn Hill performs on-stage during Day One of Madcool Festival on July 11, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Mariano Regidor) Mariano Regidor/Courtesy of the artist. hide caption
Pusha T performs at the 2019 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival in April 2019. Push's latest single, "Coming Home" is on this week's Heat Check. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption
Producer 9th Wonder speaks with student staff members at The HipHop Archive & Research Institute in Jan. 2018. Harold Shawn /Courtesy of The Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at Harvard hide caption
Clockwise from upper left: Lauryn Hill, Joni Mitchell (Blue album cover), PJ Harvey (Rid of Me album cover), Nina Simone, Ofra Haza (Fifty Gates of Wisdom album cover), Aretha Franklin. Courtesy of the artists hide caption
Lauryn Hill performs in New York City in March 2006. Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images hide caption
Nina Revisited, an all-star tribute to Nina Simone, comes out July 10. Ian Showell/Getty Images hide caption
Pearl Jam (top left), Missy Elliott (top right), the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind (bottom right), PJ Harvey (bottom left), Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel (center). Courtesy of the artists hide caption
All Songs Rewind: The Legacy Of The '90s
Ms. Lauryn Hill performs at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Noam Golai/Getty Images hide caption
Lauryn Hill performs in January in Sydney, Australia. Brendon Thorne/Getty Images hide caption
Lauryn Hill performing on MTV: Unplugged in 2001. Scott Gries/Getty Images hide caption