Editors Picks

“I don’t think he realizes how much of my life he got me through.”

In the Loop Digga I trust.

On ‘LEGACY! LEGACY!,’ Jamila Woods transforms self-love into a series of wonderfully constructed odes.

The year is 2019 and these are your pop stars.

French hip-hop found its raison d’être in vociferous social criticism.

Who would we put on the XXL freshman cover? Let's find out.

The Toronto Raptors global ambassador missed an easy layup.

In Drake, rap fans found a new, more “relatable” figure.

“In my view, the shit that makes people love him, is the same shit that makes people mad.”

Trolls of today will never successfully mimic the real terror of a younger 50 Cent.

With ‘Flower Boy,’ and now ‘IGOR,’ Tyler has finally self-actualized.

Tyler uses the act of naming to showcase how powerless—nameless—he is in the face of heartbreak.

We asked Jamila Woods, Nolan The Ninja, LATASHÁ, and Phonte to weigh in.

The more we play ‘Faces,’ the more we realize it was Mac Miller’s grand attempt to make this life a bearable one.

Touring performers should treat their voices the way professional athletes treat their bodies, but many of them don't until it's too late.

A borough-by-borough breakdown of every rapper who’s worn the crown.

"At 27, I’m no longer encountering new music that moves me the way it once did."

Comic books and hip-hop don’t just share superficial, surface level similarities; they have a bond that cuts deep.

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

Not really, sort of.

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.

Let's look at the cumulative power of misinformation.

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.