The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Nav, Will Smith, and Lil Durk.

Though not well-known today, Moore was instrumental in hip-hop’s early mainstream success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, ...

Taigo Onez talks about straddling hip-hop and house, his goals for his Bang Le’ Dex label, and his work as electronic format ...

From 50 Cent's survival after being shot to Cardi B's rise from stripper to superstar, these 10 hip hop artists overcame ...

AI in hip-hop production isn’t just a buzzword—it’s a revolution. But here’s the catch: technology that was supposed to democratize music is now as much a tool for creative empowerment as ...

Experimental rapper and music producer JPEGMAFIA, also known as Devon Hendryx or Peggy, is coming to Richmond this June.

In “Straight Loops, Light & Soul,” a project evoking Roy DeCarava’s Harlem jazz pictures and the music of J Dilla, Williams ...

He was a magazine ad salesman when he and a colleague, Robert Ford, teamed with Kurtis Blow and helped break rap music into ...

Playboi Carti's MUSIC tops the Billboard 200, selling nearly 300,000 units in its debut week and cementing his influence in ...

Hip-hop has been shaped by many influential figures, but few have had the lasting impact of Large Professor. Born William Paul Mitchell on March 21, 1972, the legendary rapper, producer, and DJ helped ...

(Ford died in 2020.) Moore, who also sometimes wrote jazz reviews for Billboard, is credited as a producer and writer on classic early hip-hop tracks like “The Breaks,” “Christmas Rappin ...

Father of veteran hip-hop producer Hit-Boy ... that the sole remaining member of The Diplomats to still be releasing music on a regular basis would be Jim Jones — and that it’d be at least ...