While countless end-of-year lists circulate each December, few captured hip hop’s devotion to lyricism like the Genius “2025 In Review.” Despite narratives suggesting otherwise, the data show that ...
In 2023 Ahmir Thompson, known as Questlove, curated the “Hip-Hop at 50” tribute for the Grammy Awards. The harrowing experience, in which Mr. Thompson had to distill a half century of music—and ...
Questlove, the accomplished musician, filmmaker and author, most recently of “Hip-Hop Is History,” is no doubt aware that his title cuts more than one way. It indicates both that hip-hop is a ...
Record-breaking mainstream hits. A new generation of artists rising to seize their moment. Rappers in and out of courts. A pair of the biggest names in the game transforming their careers by taking ...
Hip-Hop and The White House (now streaming on Hulu) is the first documentary from &360, an anthology series produced by Andscape, the rebranded identity of ESPN and Disney’s The Undefeated. Written ...
No one is having a better year than Doechii. The Florida rapper, “The Swamp Rula,” released her critically-acclaimed mixtape “Alligator Bites Never Heal” in August 2024 and hasn’t hit the brakes since ...
If an artist releases an album called ‘Experimental Rap’, what do you really expect you’ll get? Some emo-country? Brazilian funk? Amapiano? Probably not. But it’s hard to take JPEGMAFIA solely at his ...
When he was growing up, rap music’s founding father Kurtis Blow remembers the Nutcracker being a Christmas time tradition. “As a little kid, my mom would play it for us during the holiday season,” ...
Thirty years ago, Common looked back ruefully at his favorite genre in “I Used to Love H.E.R.,” his classic riff on hip-hop as a wayward ex-girlfriend. “She was really the realest before she got into ...
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