Hip-hop

Ebo Taylor Jazz Is Dead review

Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad : Jazz Is Dead 022

In a 2024 conversation during Jazz Is Dead‘s L.A. Philharmonic residency, label co-founder and hip-hop…

Pink Siifu BLACK'!ANTIQUE review

Pink Siifu : BLACK’!ANTIQUE

A nearly 80-minute rap opus that spans from blistering noise to soulful jazz rap

Kendrick Lamar GNX review

Kendrick Lamar : GNX

Kendrick’s surprise-released new album is his most immediate and least conceptual, but that’s not a problem

MIKE

MIKE announces new album, Showbiz!

Hear “You’re the Only One Watching”

A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest’s legacy of individuality

A reflection on the hip-hop pioneers’ entry into the Rock Hall of Fame

Backstage documentary

Rock Docs Podcast: Nick’s Picks Vol. 4: Backstage

Nick McCann returns to discuss the documentary on the Hard Knock Life tour

Tyler the Creator Chromakopia review

Tyler, the Creator : Chromakopia

Tyler offers some of his most raw and personal material on his latest

Elucid interview

Elucid speaks the truth

We spoke to the New York rapper about ‘Revelator’, frustration, hope, and social media

Elucid revelator review

ELUCID – REVELATOR

The emcee and one half of Armand Hammer delivers a noisier and more intense album, but one that still has a pronounced humanity at its core

Common Pete Rock The Auditorium review

Common & Pete Rock : The Auditorium Vol. 1

An outstanding boom-bap statement from two decades-long hip-hop veterans

denzel curry king of the mischievous south vol. 2

Denzel Curry – King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2

Curry reinforces his reputation as one of the best in rap today with a sequel to a mixtape more than a decade old

Angry Blackmen

Angry Blackmen announce fall tour

New dates in support of ‘The Legend of ABM’

Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly

Treble 100, No. 12: Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly

K.Dot’s breakthrough 2015 album remains the loudest pronouncement of his artistic ambition

Public Enemy It takes a nation of millions

Treble 100, No. 13: Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

When this album dropped in 1988, hip-hop would never be the same.

ShrapKnel Nobody Planning to Leave review

ShrapKnel – Nobody Planning to Leave

The hip-hop duo’s third record is their most dazzling and best-sounding set of labyrinthine lyricism to date

Denzel Curry

Denzel Curry announces King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2

Hear “HOT ONE,” featuring TiaCorine and A$AP Ferg

Vince Staples new album Dark Times

Vince Staples : Dark Times

An enjoyable set of boom bap from a reliably solid rapper; nothing more, nothing less