There are songwriters, and there are songwriters’ songwriters. They’re the ones other songwriters look up to with real-time reverence. Jules has been in this club for decades. Whether solo or in bands ...

For an art form built on aggression and in-your-face flavor, hip-hop doesn't seem like it'd have a place for whispering on tracks. In fact, whispering is hardly ever associated with any musical genre.

Quiet raps are a thing again. The current resurgence is indebted to Valee, but its commercial peak remains 2005’s Ying Yang Twins hit “Wait (The Whisper Song).” It’s that song, more than anyone else, ...