2023 was chock-full of incessant complaining as the culture simultaneously celebrated 50 years. The fanfare and criticism were both justified in a great many ways. However, if one would just quiet the ...

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While plenty of energy was spent this year debating whether or not rap was still at the forefront of pop culture as it reached its fiftieth anniversary, there was no shortage of exciting new music to ...

In November, the National Museum of African American Music opened the next installment of This Is Hip-Hop, its ongoing exhibit series marking 50 years of one of America’s most important contributions ...

While many of you were looking to the past because of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, I was focused on the present, which is why I can say for certain that this was another exciting year for rap. The ...

On today's episode of The Excerpt podcast: It would be hard to argue that 2023’s biggest name in music wasn’t Taylor Swift. She was recently named Time magazine’s Person of the Year and was Spotify’s ...

With just under four months left in 2024, there have already been more hip-hop songs to top Billboard‘s Hot 100 Songs (and as many rap albums on the 200 albums chart) than in all of 2023, the sign of ...

For the past decade, billy woods and E L U C I D, the two rappers who regularly join forces Wonder Twins-style under the name Armand Hammer, have remained comfortably ahead of the curve among their ...