A companion incense for MAVI’s long-awaited third album shadowbox has been long-gestating, the byproduct of a chance meeting at an A.P.C. store overseas while on tour some years ago. One of the ...

Laughing So Hard It Hurts is an album about pain. The pain of losing friends and loved ones, the pain of generational trauma, and of relationships ending. Though none of this is considered new ...

Words are powerful. The things that an artist says within or outside of their music matter in a distinct way. Every rapper doesn't need to be serious or push towards a goal, but in reality, their ...

Seated among plaques of Madonna, Janet Jackson, and Lil Wayne at Noble Studios in Harlem, the Charlotte-raised rapper Mavi tells me about how a chance encounter with Zora Neale Hurston’s You Don’t ...

As an undergraduate student in 2018, the rapper Mavi helped organize a week-long takeover of Howard University’s main administrative building. During the sit-in sparked by a scandal over the alleged ...

Mavi has announced the follow-up to his debut 2019 album Let the Sun Talk. The new one, Laughing So Hard It Hurts, is out October 14. It’s led by the new single “Baking Soda,” which was produced by ...

Mavi is coming back with a new album. The Charlotte, North Carolina, rapper will follow last year’s Laughing So Hard, It Hurts with Shadowbox on August 9. Featured on the new album is “Drunk Prayer.” ...