DMC’s Darryl McDaniels Brings Music and Meaning to Paper Plane Coffee The rhythmic scratching of a turntable might have been ...

"People told me, 'D, you're killing yourself,'" the 61-year-old rapper said. "I didn't have the courage to say, 'Yeah, I got ...

Of most of the modern rappers championing a life outside of gang activity and crime, 21 Savage is certainly at the top of the ...

You can probably guess the top one: Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” the same song that took the top spot in ...

Boosie Badazz lashed out at Kodak Black after the Florida rapper released a diss track just before Boosie’s court date in his ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...

Barack Obama’s 2025 playlist highlighted Kendrick Lamar, Drake and Gunna as key Hip-Hop voices shaping the sound of today and tomorrow. The former president’s annual music roundup once again leaned ...

Rap in 2025 was all about experimentation. From the year’s first runaway hit, NBA player-turned-musician Gelo’s single “Tweaker,” to the maximalist ecclesiastics of Playboi Carti’s Music, or even in ...

We asked some of our favorite culture creators to give us their best-of lists for 2025; the rest of James Gunn's top 50 alternative rap songs of the year can be found right here. Easily my favorite ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...