PowerPage Nightcap October 16th, 2026: Building the Next Chapter
Friday’s music coverage looked beyond the release calendar to the work that gives an artist a lasting platform. PowerPage Nightcap for October 16th brings together Gunna, Raheem DeVaughn and TheARTI$T: a rapper taking an executive role, an R&B singer expanding his radio presence, and an emerging voice explaining how she shapes a record. Their next chapters take different forms, but each begins with a deliberate creative choice.
Gunna is building an artist-development operation through SB THE LABEL, announced with Atlantic Music Group as its partner. Our Gunna report introduces the opening roster—Casper Bluff, Nechie and Dracc—and separates the confirmed CEO role from financial terms that have not been disclosed. The company’s next releases will offer a clearer measure of what that structure means for its artists. Tonight’s takeaway is the commitment to developing other voices alongside his own career.
Raheem DeVaughn brings a different kind of recurring platform to listeners through The Garden of Love. Our Raheem DeVaughn report follows the syndicated show’s launch and its Baltimore home at Magic 95.9. The announced local schedule runs Sunday through Thursday from 7 p.m. to midnight, so Friday is a moment to catch up on the news, not an invitation to tune in for a scheduled Friday broadcast. Music and relationship conversation share the program’s focus.
TheARTI$T turns attention back to the recording process. Our TheARTI$T report includes her YouKnowIGotSoul interview about vulnerability, layered vocals and her work with Troy Taylor. The conversation gives listeners a way to connect the finished performance with the choices behind it. Her discussion of introducing herself to an unfamiliar concert audience also shows how recording and stagecraft can support the same artistic identity.
Taken together, these developments widen the picture of a working music career. A label needs a roster and a plan; a radio program needs a voice listeners want to return to; a recording needs details that make its emotion convincing. None replaces the songs. Each can help an artist establish a deeper relationship with the people hearing them.
Read the full reports on Gunna, Raheem DeVaughn and TheARTI$T for the sourcing, local listening details and original interview. Then turn to tonight’s separate Grown & Sexy Slow Jams selection when you are ready to lower the pace. The day’s headlines can lead naturally into an evening of listening.
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