Hip-hop celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2023, and from its early renegade beginnings to becoming a big fish in the mainstream, many a clever lyric has been turned out by talented rhymers who ...

While it's totally subjective, we think it's safe to say that the best love songs tell stories that touch your heart in such a way that they are never forgotten. They spark memories of the joys, fears ...

Back when hip-hop was seeping out of New York City and becoming the soundtrack of urban American, red states preferred the rootsy melodies of country music. In those years, the idea of combining the ...

A recent tiff between underground rap promo pages has sparked an impassioned online debate about the definition of “gimmick rappers” over the past week. Most of it is boring and wrapped up in ...

Technically, Up My Standards is a mixtape, but it sounds more like one long radio freestyle. The only moments where Philly’s ...

Was February unseasonably warm where you live too? I think that's why the past month felt especially turnt up — not only are the days longer, but it's 66 and sunny out. I didn't take a week off work, ...

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 ...

“Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients / Youngbloods can’t spell, but they could rock you in PlayStation.” Mos Def raises the stakes of this rhyme in the first line by presenting the ...

On the surface, the often clean-imaged Korean music industry might not seem like the best fit for the often raunchy and explicit hip-hop genre. However, there’s more to both than meets the eye. Korean ...