My Interview with rapper Common for The Guardian

I was recently able to spend some time with the rapper Common, talking about life, his evolution as a man and as an artist and his new music. The result is this feature article for The Guardian. Enjoy! Common: ‘I wanted to be the dopest. Then I found a higher purpose’ Lola Adesioye   He […]

Lola’s Soundtrack: My top 10 albums of 2018

In conversation with singer/songwriter extraordinaire, Arrow Benjmain (writer of Beyonce’s Freedom)

My BBC3 Classical Fix playlist, created by Clemency Burton-Hill

In Conversation with writer Joan Morgan at Dumbo House – “She Begat This: 20 Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill”

Interviewing writer Joan Morgan, author of She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

My Guest appearance on BBC3’s Classical Fix

Robert Glasper at the Blue Note

Farewell Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul

Thank you, Ms Franklin

RIP Aretha Franklin, Soul Legend

Dizzie Gillespie Street Art, Harlem

“This is America” – Childish Gambino’s Masterful Visual Thinkpiece

Beychella and Beyonce’s Homage to Black Culture

How Jay Sean & Taio Cruz Took the US by storm

Jay Sean and Taio Cruz have achieved something very few British acts have managed – selling R&B and urban pop back to the US. They tell Lola Adesioye how they did it  ‘You have to keep the dream alive’ … Jay Sean performing in Los Angeles. Photograph: Angela Weiss/Getty Images Every few years, the US […]