After stacking hits like “Rake It Up” and “Bartier Cardi” in 2017, 30 Roc continued making bangers in 2018. Aside from executive producing Lil Yachty’s sophomore set, Lil Boat 2, the Bronx-bred ...

As December draws to a close, just much every rap blog, music publication and media outlet that covers hip-hop has posted its Best Of 2018 list. And as usual most of these contain many of the same ...

Hip-hop has survived the test of time. While many thought the genre would plateau following its late 1990's golden era, rap has endured—it's taken over pop culture to become the most consumed music by ...

After hip-hop made history last year as the most consumed genre across America, rappers continued the momentum with record-breaking streams and surprise albums, while listeners added more proof to the ...

Meek Mill’s album CHAMPIONSHIPS (Photo courtesy of MMG/ Atlantic) We experienced many memorable musical moments in 2018. For example, Kanye West produced five albums alone but overshadowed them all ...

Lil Yachty posed a great question during his lines on Chance The Rapper’s “Mixtape” a couple years ago. “Am I the only one who really care about cover art?” That's clearly not the case. But it brings ...

Chicago’s Chris Crack was busy this year, dropping six projects that all could be in this slot. The one we engaged the most was Being Woke Ain’t Fun, mostly because the album title alone is worth it.

As the holiday season winds down and the promise of a new year looms, the Billboard Hot 100 readies itself for another 52 weeks of new hits and new hitmakers. As 2018's lingering singles steadily drop ...

West Coast is the best coast. With 2018 being the year hip-hop has cemented its status as the world’s most popular genre, it’s only right we pay homage to California, home to legends Tupac, Snoop Dogg ...

For at least a decade now, rap beats have been getting fiercer every year. The biggest producers in the genre largely abandoned traditional acoustic instrumentation, instead embracing the abrasive ...

Hip-hop is unequivocally the biggest genre in modern music, and it has arguably remained as such for the last quarter-century. That position was confirmed in recent years as hip-hop’s reigning ...

Griselda has singlehandedly proven that mid-tempo, grimy 90’s style boom-bap is still very much a thing. Like his rhyming compatriots Westside Gunn and Conway The Machine, Benny The Butcher weaves ...