The Best New Hip-Hop This Week

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The best new hip-hop this week includes albums, videos, and songs from Cardi B, Flo Milli, Tierra Whack, and more. Guys, it’s finally happened: A Best New Hip-Hop column in which I could literally get […]

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week

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The best new hip-hop this week includes albums, videos, and songs from J. Cole, Earthgang, and more. I’m not sure how highly readers of this column had been anticipating Earthgang’s new EP Robophobia, but it’s […]

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week

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The best new hip-hop this week includes albums, videos, and songs from Gunna, Polo G, Schoolboy Q, and more. While it’s a slim week for new album releases, there are singles galore to check out, […]

Are the Grammys biased against hip-hop and rap? Here’s what the numbers say.

Are the Grammys biased against hip-hop and rap? Here's what the numbers say.

Stacker dove into Grammy nominations, Billboard charts, and Spotify and Last.fm data to quantify the Recording Academy’s predisposition to hip-hop. – Kevin Winter // Getty Images Rahul Mukherjee On Aug. 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc […]

The Best Hip-Hop Albums Of 2023

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Hip-hop in 2023 was largely a game of hard left turns and stylistic leaps of faith. From Doja Cat’s bridge-burning fourth album Scarlet to Lil Uzi Vert’s wildly experimental Pink Tape, hip-hop artists went out […]

Enough, Drake! Why the hip-hop superstar really needs to take a break

Enough, Drake! Why the hip-hop superstar really needs to take a break

When Drake announced the surprise release of his “Scary Hours 3” EP — in an elaborate, two-minute trailer posted on Instagram  — mere hours before it dropped at midnight on Friday, I could barely muster […]

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week: City Girls, Gucci Mane

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The best new hip-hop this week includes albums, videos, and songs from City Girls, Gucci Mane, Rexx Life Raj, and more. A busy, buzzy week in hip-hop kicked off with Mr. October’s Very Own himself, […]