#Giggs breaks down how he became the OG of UK street rap and explains why "Talking The Hardest" changed everything. Before that track, you couldn't hear UK rap in any parties, it was all American ...

Long before E-40 became a regional hero in Northern California, he would walk into Vallejo’s Salvation Army and Goodwill outposts with a handful of dimes, hunting for old records to sample. One day he ...

Last week, 21 Savage took to X and called for reconciliation between Young Thug and Gunna, two titans of Atlanta rap who’d fallen out over the belief that Gunna’s plea in the YSL trial amounted to ...

The Lox are sacred to rap culture. In a genre where getting older isn’t celebrated or even necessarily tolerated, the east-coast hip-hop trio of Jason “Jadakiss” Phillips, David “Styles P” Styles, and ...

GloRilla (L) and BossMan Dlow perform at the WGCI Big Jam. Credit: Courtesy Interscope; courtesy the artist The WCGI Big Jam, hosted by the Chicago hip-hop station, celebrates the season with some of ...

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Hip-hop is in a complicated place right now. It’s not the dominant force it once was, but it remains the engine of popular music, with flashier, more global genres borrowing its strategies, sounds, ...

If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...