Hip-hop

The best hip-hop albums of 2016

The Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums of 2016

The best in beats and rhymes for the year.

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Run the Jewels announce details of RTJ3

Hear new track, “Legend Has It.”

Jaylib Stones Throw subscription service

Stones Throw announces vinyl subscription series

Hear an unreleased track by Jaylib, included in the subscription series.

Best of 2016 so far playlist

Chance the Rapper cancels remaining European tour dates

A Facebook post from the promoter cites “personal reasons.”

Tinashe

Da Art of Storytellin’: A post-election mixtape diversion

A diversion from the divisiveness, with three great new mixtapes.

A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest have the number one album in America

Hip-hop legends hit number one for the first time in 20 years.

A Tribe Called Quest We the People video

A Tribe Called Quest depict a protest movement in “We the People” video

Watch a protest movement form in the hip-hop legends’ new video from their final album.

Run the Jewels announce 2017 tour dates

Plus watch El-P and Killer Mike as playable Gears of War 4 characters.

A Tribe Called Quest

Q-Tip announces the final A Tribe Called Quest album

The group’s final album due in two weeks.

Run the Jewels Talk to Me RTJ3

Run the Jewels release new track, “Talk to Me”

Hear the first taste of Run the Jewels 3.

Kanye West Saint Pablo tour

Kanye West announces more dates for Saint Pablo tour

Several dates rescheduled after Kim Kardashian’s robbery.

Da Art of Storytellin’: Stop scapegoating rap music

Hip-hop isn’t responsible for society’s ills, and definitely not responsible for Donald Trump.

Chance the Rapper Kit Kat commercial

Watch Chance the Rapper’s Kit-Kat commercial

Chance the (W)rapper sings the jingle.

Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition review

Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition

The Detroit rapper offers his most experimental and ominous release yet, his first for Warp.

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Stream the new Danny Brown album, Atrocity Exhibition

Hear the album a few days before it’s officially released.

Da Art of Storytellin’: It’s still hot in herre

Fall is here, but the summer jams aren’t ready to stop just yet.