It's a busy Monday night at Tufts, and students are filing into Brown and Brew to crack open the books. The study mood was set by a local pop/hip-hop radio station playing a club mix. Nobody was ...

Since emerging with the 2004 breakthrough hit "Locked Up," Senegalese-American singer Akon has rarely let listeners forget that he's been, well ... locked up. The son of respected jazz percussionist ...

The Game’s second album and the debut from rapper Akon took the top two slots on the nation’s album sales chart for the week ended Sunday. “Doctor’s Advocate” (Geffen) sold 358,000 copies while Akon’s ...