Opinion

They are worth it, and we will sing about them.

Across Atmosphere’s discography, we learn the right and wrong ways to grieve.

Not really, sort of.

We get our music on demand, but on Guava Island, the radio allows everyone, even if for only two minutes, to share in a communal experience.

What happened? Where did they go? What are they doing now?

How hip-hop music fosters family.

We know.

Two years after releasing his GRAMMY-winning 'DAMN.,' Kendrick Lamar’s honesty remains a testament to the power of fear.

Donna and Yoh discuss the last album that truly shocked them.

"When he's in his zone, there’s very little wrong Anderson. Paak can do—and he does no wrong on 'Ventura.'"

“Can’t switch up my code / Morale be too low”

"Nothing sounds obviously recent or painfully dated; time could never taint the vision of love and infinity on 'The Loop.'"

I’m going to tell you something you probably don’t want to hear.

There was a eulogy in some shape or form everywhere you turned.

This group of lyricists isn't vital simply because they're showing respect to their female forebears.

“Happy Birthday,” “Wedding,” and “Funeral,” like all of Mac’s life music, are honest and imperative takes on trying to live to tomorrow.

As grime and UK rap basks in unprecedented mass appeal, we take a trip down memory lane to 2004, the year that London took it.

Nipsey Hussle operated without fear throughout his entire life.

Something amazing happened: we were hearing each other.

Dreamville Fest was shelter in the face of tragedy, inadvertently.

Let's look at the cumulative power of misinformation.

When an artist uses repetition, there's nowhere to hide.

Who failed most to live up to their potential?

Jay Electronica’s album is not going to save the world. It’s not going to save hip-hop. But it may do something else.

Donna and Yoh discuss how exactly rap music brings us comfort.

We examine Kurt Cobain's influence on hip-hop past and present.

With all four members of Black Hippy operating at their absolute apex, the Rap Crew title belt is theirs to lose.

In 2017, I lost one of my closest friends.

'Blonde' is a broken album, to be sure, but it is not one encumbered by pain.

In today’s music climate, a viral hit is both a gift and a curse.

Really, it was the slur of it. The plain quality of it. The simple truth of it.

What, if anything, do artists owe to their fans?

And not necessarily for the better.

An interlude is more than space for an idea to come and go.