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The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Aminé, Key Glock, and Quavo. Even light weeks like ...
Dandelions: Gods Don’t Cry is beautifully paced, sonically cohesive with its spacious production and unshakably honest. It is as good as it gets when it comes to narrative hip-hop, a perfect ...
Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...
Dee-1 revealed his upcoming album Hypocritical Hop, his collaborations with nearly every Hot Boy, and his mission to confront the dark side of the music industry head-on.
These essential hip-hop releases built a throne for 2Pac as one of music’s all-time great wordsmiths, leaving a lasting influence on the industry that we now highlight with this hierarchy. This ...
Chilean-French hip-hop artist Ana Tijoux is one of the leading lights of Latin American rap music. Over the course of five ...
WTTW News producer Josh Terry presents must-see live music shows from indie rock to jazz, country, hip-hop and more.
The synopsis for episode 31 of season 12 is, “Zell shows his receipts on what Karlie’s fiancé has been doing on the low; ...
For a Black kid from the South, Outkast changed everything about how I viewed hip-hop and music and informed my musical growth.
Under Tangled Silence, Manuel’s third album, pulls off a similar feat, but to subtler, more poetic effect. Like his DJ sets, ...
Debbie Harry, the charismatic frontwoman of Blondie, once sat down with her bandmate Chris Stein to discuss their favourite songs.
Mobb Deep's Classic 'The Infamous' LP Turns 30 Years Old! Mobb Deep's Classic 'The Infamous' LP Turns 30 Years Old ...