Mano Sundaresan is a producer at NPR.
He joined in 2019 as an NPR Music intern and cut his teeth for several years at All Things Considered, where he helped launch the artist interview series Play It Forward. He currently produces Louder Than A Riot and The Limits With Jay Williams. His favorite piece he's worked on is a profile of Zoomer sensation PinkPantheress.
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After losing a major-label record deal following a series of anti-Semitic comments, Ye, formerly Kanye West, is No. 1 on...
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Kanye West has made stumbling rollouts, toxic comments and blown deals his calling card. But at the launch for his... -
For years, the relatable Michigan rapper's lore was missing a crucial component: an album. In the lead up to its... -
The unwritten rules of rap unpacked in Louder's second season are held together by a scarcity principle that came to... -
In 2016, a rift between hitmakers showed the limits of rap's tolerance for rule-breakers. As Mark Anthony Neal explains, "authentic"... -
Not everyone who was part of rap's ascent gets included in its story. MC Sha-Rock, of the original Funky 4... -
Three journalist have been killed in Mexico this year, two of them occurring in Tijuana. NPR's Asma Khalid talks with...
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When rapper Logic's song "1-800-273-8255" — the digits for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline — came out, the hotline started...
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The revered critic Greg Tate, an early and influential hip hop writer, has died. Tate grew up around intellectuals and...
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NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Annika Silva-Leander, the lead writer of the International IDEA's report that designated the U.S as...
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The internet's buzziest new artist talks creating her new mixtape to hell with it, sample culture, and nostalgia -
Janet Jackson's Control turns 35 this week. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Sam Sanders of It's Been A Minute, who...