I mean, I’d heard Grandmaster Melle Mel’s “White Lines” — who hadn’t, you couldn’t miss it/avoid it. At the time we considered that the Rosetta Stone of rap, although I often mentioned that Isaac ...

A couple of weeks ago, my friend overheard a trilling sound from my phone. It was a familiar one, because their eyes lit up and mind started twisting out a formula to say the right thing. “Is that the ...

Ever had those mornings when your experience on the Metro ruins your day? If so, you’ll get a kick out of GoRemy’s latest video: ...

I remember when Hip-Hop critics were calling rap music the new wrestling game because of the way that rappers would generate publicity with bluster and bravado. It made for great spectacle and it kept ...

Rap veteran Chino XL died at his home on Sunday morning at the age of 50. In his lifetime, the artist born Derek Keith Barbosa connected closely with collaborators and friends who often considered him ...

In the summer of 1984 when I started work on SPIN, which was then nothing more than a vague idea for a magazine about the music people I knew were actually listening to and the larger world we lived ...