Discovery

“This album is my ‘Illmatic.’”

“You’ve just gotta take that first step onto the stage and after that, it’s like skydiving.”

An interview with the 25-year-old New Jersey rapper about her new album, ‘Signs.’

“I’m just a girl from Queens who turned my talents into a worldwide movement that entertains people.”

The Pivot Gang rapper talks representing his neighborhood and honoring his deceased friend John Walt on his new project.

“I want you to hear me.”

The former Fifth Harmony member is an ascendant solo artist with a staggering six-song arsenal — and room to breathe life into her solo career.

“I know what I’m doing is subversive.”

From SCH and Dinos to 13 Block and Isha, we’ve compiled the best French hip-hop releases for November.

“People put on a persona that they’re happy every day, but really they aren’t. That’s why parked car conversations are needed.”

“I used to work at a shitty restaurant bussing tables and got fired because I missed a shift to work on our last album.”

Take him or leave him, but don’t ever say ROLE MODEL didn’t know himself.

On his solo debut, ‘Own Pace,’ the 22-year-old New York rapper-producer clears his mind.

“I started thinking about, ‘Why do we fall in love?’”

“While I’m out here saving the world, the people I’m saving the world for are dissatisfied with me.”

“My project isn’t all about me—somebody’s gonna hear this.”

“Meeting people and experiencing new people brings me peace.”

An interview with the Los Angeles native following her farewell performance in Portland, Oregon, the city that gave her a music career.

We bring you the best French hip-hop for the month of October.

“I want little girls that are gay to have something that’s theirs. Something they can sing to.”

Yoh sits down with East Atlanta rapper Grip, whose new album, 'Snubnose,' showcases a narrator who turns slices-of-reality into fictional, detailed raps.

“I’m always ‘R&B.’ That’s the first thing people will say and I’m like ‘Is that it? Is that all you feel from the music?’”

"I didn’t choose trap, trap chose me."

Even more must-hear French hip-hop.