Opinion

Those jumbo-sized Crayola boxes wish they had this much color.

I did my part to contribute to the cause.

There are many ways to deal with the pain that life brings. Choose wisely.

Pivot Gang’s ‘You Can’t Sit With Us’ is pure fun and kicking back with the homies.

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.

Kind of.

"It’s a little more risky."

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?

"It's still fucked up inside the system."

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.'"

Omar Apollo chooses to be a new kind of pop star on 'Friends.'

“Just stay down with me and wait.”

“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.'"

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.