Travis Scott’s record-breaking ‘Utopia’ earns 500,000 album units in first week – Music News

Travis Scott's record-breaking ‘Utopia’ - Music News

Travis Scott’s No.1 album UTOPIA has been deemed the biggest hip-hop release of 2023, with 500,000 in album units sold in its first week, and garnering over 650 million streams globally. Additionally, Apple Music confirmed […]

How Sugar Hill Records remade music with ‘Rapper’s Delight’

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On Oct. 20, 1979, high school friends Angela Brown, Cheryl Cook and Gwendolyn Chisolm found themselves in a make-or-break audition. Like many adventurous teens, the Columbia, S.C., natives were enamored with a new musical art […]

MC Sha-Rock Talks Her Hip-Hop Origin Story, 50th Anniversary

MC Sha-Rock Talks Her Hip-Hop Origin Story, 50th Anniversary

Courtesy of MC Sha-RockCourtesy of MC Sha-Rock There are a lot of firsts associated with MC Sha-Rock, hip-hop’s “mother of the mic.” The Bronx, NY, native is the first female MC in hip-hop history and […]

Fugees Scored Their Future in the Booga Basement: Podcast

Fugees Scored Their Future in the Booga Basement: Podcast

 Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Stitcher | Radio Public | Pocket Casts | RSS We’re opening The Opus archives as part of our Hip-Hop 50 celebration, revisiting one of the greatest rap records of all time: Fugees’ The Score. In Episode 2 […]

Dave & Central Cee claim longest-running UK rap Number 1 with ‘Sprinter’ – Music News

Dave & Central Cee claim longest-running UK rap Number 1 with 'Sprinter' - Music News

Dave and Central Cee have made it into history books once again, with Sprinter now the longest-running UK rap Number 1 single in UK chart history. Today, the track marks nine consecutive weeks at the […]

Eric B. & Rakim changed rap with their 1987 album ‘Paid in Full’ : NPR

Eric B. & Rakim changed rap with their 1987 album 'Paid in Full' : NPR

Rakim (left) and Eric B., 1987 David Corio / Contributor/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption David Corio / Contributor/Getty Images Rakim (left) and Eric B., 1987 David Corio / Contributor/Getty Images When hip-hop got its […]

Armand Hammer Announce Tour, Share Video for New Song with Pink Siifu: Watch

Armand Hammer Announce Tour, Share Video for New Song with Pink Siifu: Watch

Armand Hammer—the rap duo comprising billy woods and Elucid—have shared the video for their new song with Pink Siifu, “Trauma Mic.” Produced by DJ Haram, it’s the lead single from their forthcoming LP We Buy Diabetic […]

Queen Latifah Talks Hip-Hop’s 50th Anniversary

Letter From the Editor: Celebrating 50 Years of Women’s Excellence in Hip-Hop

Queen Latifah gives hip-hop “a whole lot of credit” for where her legacy stands. Looking back on her emergence in the 1980s — when she introduced her vibrant Afrocentric style and women empowerment anthems to […]

Monaleo Talks Motherhood, Debut LP, and More

Monaleo Talks Motherhood, Debut LP, and More

ELABSELABS Monaleo doesn’t subscribe to the age-old myth of motherhood being a career killer. When the 22-year-old Houston rapper found out she was pregnant with her first child late last year, she didn’t slow down […]

Womad review – more music festivals need this vitality, daring and breadth | Womad

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In a crowded festival marketplace that nevertheless often cleaves to a relatively timid and tight crop of British, European and American artists, Womad provides a vital yearly reminder of the breadth of the planet’s music. […]