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E L U C I D, R.A.P. Ferreira, AKAI SOLO, Fly Anakin, Namir Blade and more lead Mixtape Monday’s best… Read More
A mural honoring late rapper Pop Smoke has been vandalized in Brooklyn’s Canarsie neighborhood where the artist was raised. A… Read More
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New music from MIKE, Lord Juco, Tef Poe, Ransom x V Don, Gun$moke and more this Mixtape Monday. MIKE is… Read More
Whether the genre was hip-hop or R&B or punk or Afrobeats or all of the above, our favorite songs of… Read More
While the music was constantly good in 2022 — sometimes even great — there weren't many game changers. Here are… Read More
Boldy James x Cuns, Jabee, SNOTTY, ilysm, Blackliq x Ohbliv and more this Mixtape Monday. Boldy James & Cuns deliver… Read More
JAY-Z dropped his playlist of favorite songs on TIDAL. The results might surprise you. After all of these years, JAY-Z… Read More
Created by Sean Kantrowitz, interactive card game The Questions Hip-Hop Trivia will release via Penguin Random House in January 2023. The… Read More
Raw Poetic x Damu The Fudgemunk, STALLEY, Mickey Diamond, Bun B x Statik Selektah and more this Mixtape Monday. First… Read More
Producer and DJ Prince Paul has returned to working with legendary hip-hop trio De La Soul, 30 years after producing… Read More
Joined by her eldest daughter Puma Curry, Erykah Badu interviewed Ice Spice on what a "munch" is, Bronx hip-hop culture… Read More
This week's New Music Friday round-up includes albums from Meek Mill, Sadat and Dough Networks, Wajeed and more. We're getting… Read More
Released just over 23 years ago, “Hip Hop” sits at the epicenter of Mos Def’s classic debut, Black On Both… Read More
The Come Up details hip-hop’s birth and ultimate rise as the gravitational center of pop culture. We sat down with… Read More