Jack White Joins Conan O’Brien, Hip-Hop Rules at Newport Folk Festival 2024

From the outside looking in, Newport Folk Festival has become increasingly defined by headline-grabbing performances. This year it was Beck’s surprise covers set and Conan O’Brien bringing out Jack White. Last year it was the Lana […]

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Ice Spice, Mustard, and Rakim. A jam-packed week of new hip-hop releases included not only the returns of a number of our faves, […]

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Ice Spice, Mustard, and Rakim. A jam-packed week of new hip-hop releases included not only the returns of a number of our faves, […]

NASA Beams Missy Elliott Song 158 Million Miles Through Space In Historic Hip-Hop Feat

Elliott celebrated the galactic feat by sharing pictures of planets and dancing aliens online.

Missy Elliott has reached uncharted territory — as apparently the first rapper with music in deep space. NASA announced earlier this week that their Deep Space Network successfully transmitted Elliott’s 1997 song “The Rain (Supa […]

How Shaboozey’s slow-burning hybrid of hip-hop and country became the biggest song in the U.S. : NPR

Shaboozey performs during the 2024 BET Awards in Los Angeles in June 2024.

Shaboozey performs during the 2024 BET Awards in Los Angeles in June 2024. Michael Tran/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Michael Tran/Getty Images Country rapper and singer Shaboozey has plenty of reasons to celebrate right […]

Elliott Wilson’s Best Hip-Hop Albums & Songs Of 2024, So Far

Elliott Wilson's Best Hip-Hop Albums & Songs Of 2024, So Far

Two months ago, I tweeted: “Best year of hip-hop. EVER. #2024.” and the Internet’s feisty commentators tore me up. Pardon my excitement and wild proclamation, but I haven’t felt this good about the state of […]

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from 42 Dugg, Eminem, and Killer Mike. Holiday weeks are notoriously slow for new music releases, but that didn’t stop several hip-hop artists from […]

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Channel Tres, Latto, and Megan Thee Stallion. It must be summer. The floodgates have most certainly opened this week, with no fewer than […]

Rapper Nas Bringing Hip-Hop Classic ‘Beat Street’ To Broadway

Rapper Nas Bringing Hip-Hop Classic 'Beat Street' To Broadway

Rap icon Nas is joining a creative team to bring a stage musical adaptation of the 1984 hip-hop film classic Beat Street to Broadway. Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, better known as Nas, made the […]

The Best Hip-Hop Albums Of 2024 So Far

21 Savage American Dream

My colleague Derrick Rossignol is right; writing about beef and hate for the past six months has been exhausting. We here at Uproxx would much rather focus on the positives — especially when it comes […]