Opinion

The artist-fan relationship is as wrought as any other relationship in our lives.

Like a Super Saiyan fusion or cereal and milk, separately they’re great but combined they are truly something special.

Every sound and voice on ‘Wow... That’s Crazy’ complements the world Wale is creating; a world that is sonically lush and lyrically transparent.

Yet another list to argue over.

The Bushwick rapper sang the one song a rapper isn’t supposed to sing.

Yup, we did it.

Our critiques fundamentally misunderstand Young M.A’s style.

On his fifth studio album, ‘uknowhatimsayin?,’ Danny Brown is free.

The brash, Detroit emcee doesn’t sound reinvented, but reborn.

André 3000 earns all the praise. But Big Boi’s catalog is undeniably more impressive.

Follow us down the digital rabbit hole.

On ‘KIRK,’ DaBaby sounds like a human torch.

With an electrifying sophomore album, Kevin Gates solidifies his return to hip-hop.

Young M.A’s long-awaited debut is a tale told two years too late.

Yup, we did it.

From “Below the Surface” to “Sacrifices,” we count down the Chicago rapper’s best work on other artist’s songs.

At its genesis, the worldwide appeal wasn’t foreseeable, but now, almost 50 years later, it’s impossible to imagine a world without hip-hop and rap music.

Throw some paper ‘Confetti,’ Jack Harlow is here to stay.

On stage, FlyLo’s beats breathe instead of bump. They’re alive. He’s alive. He is the rabbit who leads to a place of magic.

In every corner of Mac’s music — of this album — all I can find is the thrill of the coming day.

Life mandates–and art reinforces–the importance of stories outside of us.

Whatever happened to the places that helped shape hip-hop?

Chance’s advice? Ignore it.

“Behind every great fortune, there lies a crime.”