Arriving one year after his acclaimed Black Star collaboration with Talib Kweli, Black On Both Sides expanded Mos Def’s ...

In Lucknow, the youth are breathing new life into the city's rich artistic heritage by utilizing innovative mediums and ...

Drake and Don Toliver could challenge for next week's crown.

However, beats are the foundation of hip-hop’s legendary tracks. The beat sets the rhythm for the rap. It also makes you want to get up and dance, as these three classics from 1996 certainly do. The ...

In the early 1980s, when Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons launched Def Jam from Rubin’s New York University dorm room, hip-hop was an underground movement. To point out its unpopularity, Rubin told 60 ...

On this day in 1993, Long Island Hip Hop collective Leaders of the New School released their sophomore album, T.I.M.E. (The ...

The 2010s were a fascinating time for hip-hop. The increased use of the internet radically altered how fans engaged with the music. The blog era created new stars in the “Big 3”: Drake, Kendrick Lamar ...

A lot of 90s hip-hop was built on sampling, as was the hip-hop and rap of the decade before. Since the release of Sugarhill Gang’s 1979 game-changing track “Rapper’s Delight”, hip-hop has been defined ...

Justin Hunte summed up all the main tracks and offshoots from the rap battle between Joey Bada$$, Ray Vaughn, Daylyt, and many more. While the Joey Bada$$ and Ray Vaughn battle was the main hip-hop ...

Alex Gonzalez is an award-winning art and culture journalist, with a passion for music, film, and food. With over a decade of experience, he has penned several features, conducted intimate interviews ...

The current US Top 30 has no songs that could be officially described as rap or hip-hop – for the first time since 1990. That's 35 years ago, when George Bush the first was in the White House, when ...