Hip-hop
De La Soul recently commemorated the 25th anniversary of their 1991 album De La Soul…
Michael Volpe, better known as Clams Casino, is releasing his first new set of music…
The Chicago emcee’s highly anticipated third mixtape is an infectious collection of soulful, joyous hip-hop.
A few days before I sat down to write this month’s column, my partner and…
THEESatisfaction have broken up. The Seattle-based hip-hop duo of Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White, whose…
Buy at iTunes Noise has long been nipping at the heels of hip-hop for decades,…
Chance the Rapper has just released a new mixtape, titled Coloring Book. It’s his long-awaited…
With the Internet rapidly transforming from a kind of Wild West to a corporate playground…
Death Grips have just released their new album, Bottomless Pit. The band has just posted…
It must have been nerve-wracking for Drake to see arguably the biggest musician—scratch that—biggest star…
After a long period of teasing its eventual release, Drake‘s new album Views has finally…
Buy at iTunes The 1984 release of Egyptian Lover‘s “I Cry (Night After Night)” represented…
Buy at iTunes One of the major fallacies about hip-hop believed by those who don’t…
On Friday, New Jersey industrial hip-hop (and shoegaze and noise, etc.) outfit Dälek return with…
I wouldn’t shock anyone if I said that rap is a largely male-dominated genre. Not…
Last winter, Digable Planets reunited for a handful of shows just around New Year’s Eve,…
On June 24, DJ Shadow will release his new album, The Mountain Will Fall, via…
For a certain generation of listeners coming up in a certain era—the late ’80s and…
The Philadelphia emcee/producer brings together a good team, but feels like a guest on his own album.
Lamar’s Butterfly-era demos are equally impressive, if rawer and more diaristic.