Hip-hop

Rolling Loud 2017 lineup

Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne, Future headlining Rolling Loud festival

Plus Kevin Gates, Tyler the Creator, A$AP Rocky.

Da Art of Storytellin’: New year, new beats

To begin what’s going to be a long and difficult year, Jackie Im rounds up some promising new beats.

Run the Jewels 3 best hip-hop albums of 2017

Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 3

Killer Mike and El-P go hard on their third full-length.

Stream Yasiin Bey’s (fka Mos Def) new album December 99th

Hear the long-delayed album from the hip-hop journeyman.

The best hip-hop albums of 2016

The Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums of 2016

The best in beats and rhymes for the year.

best albums of 2017 Run the Jewels

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.