The project which was originally titled Support Your Local Drug Dealer is exactly what you think it should sound like: an unabashed ode to using and abusing drugs. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Hil taps on ...

Mos Def is provocatively double-tracked, not an effect you hear often in hip-hop. But it is Diverse who astonishes with his tongue-twisting phrasing. With tracks like these, hip-hop embarks on a new, ...

Thanks to great new singles from Beyoncé and Drake, it’s become the summer of hip hop with house beats. Larger-than-life figures like those two have the power to dominate the conversation and steer ...

This is what a true fan of hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco looks like: a 34-year-old mother with her teenage son; an electrical contractor who listens to country singer Keith Urban; and a Japanese-American ...

Innovation is no longer a prerequisite for success in a hip-hop galaxy built on marketing formulas, video budgets, gangster posing and conspicuous consumption of name-brand luxuries. But it was alive ...

After a harrowing 2007 — a year that started with the arrest of leading mix-tape maker DJ Drama — hip-hop mix tapes played it cool in 2008. Collections co-signed by top-level talent were scarce, ...

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