This weekend, Boy A and Boy B participated in their first soccer game. It was brilliantly entertaining. At one point, Boy B turned to a player on his own team, began talking shit (“I’m too fast, ...

Initially, if you wanted to hear the sound of hip-hop, cassette tapes recorded at jams and concerts were your best bet. These legendary tapes circulated far and wide, and they were many people's first ...

What does “mixtape” mean anymore? In assembling this list, we asked the question again and again, partly because rap continues to redefine the term. In 2000, mixtapes were generally still piles of ...

SoundCloud rap producers play a major role in shaping the modern underground rap scene, creating beats that help unknown artists gain massive attention online. With tools like FL Studio and auto-tune ...

Menace went from a complete unknown to a certified hitmaker when he sold Desiigner the beat for "Panda." Unfortunately, the producer has been pigeonholed as the producer of "Panda" and not much else.

This is not a review of Kanye West’s The Life Of Pablo. What good would it do if it were one anyway? Every music critic with a byline, a prescription for Lexapro, and a few low-bitrate Taylor Swift ...