The members of Phony Ppl teem with energy as they walk into ESSENCE’s Brooklyn office. They’re jovial and just the jolt you need in the middle of the day. The fun-loving Brooklyn-based group consists ...

After the pandemic halted the momentum of their Megan Thee Stallion collaboration, the genre-blending group scored a follow-up hit by revitalizing a decades-old Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis creation. By ...

“I was in trouble,” singer-rapper Elbee Thrie says, recalling the day that his band — the Brooklyn progressive-R&B quintet Phony Ppl — was born in 2008. It was Thrie’s 16th birthday, and he was ...

A stock photo of a woman paying her house bills with card online. Last week, we brought you a live, exclusive interview with Maria Perrin, the president of Public Partnerships LLC, or PPL, the company ...