It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

The Hip-Hop world lost a true pioneer when Gene “Groove” Allen passed away in February 2025. As a key member of Groove B. Chill, Allen helped bridge the gap between Hip-Hop’s golden era and mainstream ...

All-time greats Nas (working with producer extraordinaire DJ Premier) and De La Soul dropped lively, sonically eclectic ...

2025 was an awesome year for us. We released our third studio album, Te Rā, and got to tour not only in our home country ...

A vivid and stylish review of Lil Uzi Vert’s “What You Saying” music video, examining its high-fashion visuals and bass-heavy Jersey club-inspired sound.

Davis' attorneys argue a judge relied on a “misleading portrait” of Davis as a dangerous drug dealer to grant a nighttime ...

The River City is nothing if not consistent. The world could be on fire, and that cool hip-hop collective you’ve heard of would still release four albums in a single year. Half the city could be ...

Year-end season is normally all about positivity—publications pick their favorite albums and songs from the previous 12 ...

Don’t buy into the doomerism about music. From Sam Fender and billy woods to Stereolab and Lambrini Girls, artists are using ...

Ramirez, 27, illegally entered the country in 2013, crossing the border in Hidalgo, Texas, and had three prior arrests before being locked up for allegedly choking cabbie ...

Nigerian pop stars are often accused of singing about love and money and ignoring social issues. Falz isn’t one of them.

( KTLA) — Each holiday season, our ears are inundated with Christmas music — and though many songs have become beloved classics, other, more contemporary ones, fade away and are forgotten. Paul ...