
One of the first voices you hear on the Wu-Tang Clan's first group album in eight years is that of the late Ol' Dirty Bastard. Intended to c...
One of the first voices you hear on the Wu-Tang Clan's first group album in eight years is that of the late Ol' Dirty Bastard. Intended to c...
Fraught with interminable delays and self-sabotaging Twitter beefs, Azealia Banks' career was about to take yet another, potentially career-...
With his first novel Us Conductors, a fictional novel based on the life of theremin inventor Lev Termen, being shortlisted for the prestigio...
On If There's A Hell Below, Detroit's Black Milk picks up where his 2013 album, No Poison No Paradise, left off. That album focused on narra...
Black Milk initially built his reputation on his production skills, but on his new album If There's a Hell Below, due out on October 28 on h...
The release of the single "i" was the opening salvo of what to expect from Kendrick Lamar on the follow-up to his acclaimed 2012 album good...
It's been 20 years since Nas' seminal debut Illmatic was released, and there has been no shortage of the celebration of this fact throughout...
It seems an antiquated notion now, but at one time the idea that a top-rated hip-hop producer could also be a highly competent MC were almos...
It's been 20 years since Nas' seminal debut Illmatic was released, and there has been no shortage of the celebration of this fact throughout...
Common's 10th album Nobody's Smiling focuses on the trials and tribulations of his hometown Chicago. Produced entirely by frequent collabora...
Boston MC Edo G may have gotten his most attention for his single "Be A Father to Your Child," but he's been a dependable underground stalwa...
At first blush, Beyond the Lights might seem like an updated version of The Bodyguard. This is winkingly alluded to in an early scene, but w...
After Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano's The Intouchables went on to become a phenomenon and one of the highest grossing French films of al...
Despite being prominently featured on one of the most omnipresent and inescapable singles of this decade so far in Gotye's "Somebody I Used...
"Dilated never left, I'd like to welcome us back," says MC Rakaa (Iriscience) on "Directors," ostensibly the title track from Dilated People...
Common recently released his 10th solo album, the Chicago-focused Nobody's Smiling, and the record showcases the rapper taking a new approac...
Before Drake's set started in earnest at the fifth annual OVO Fest, he hugged his mom. She was handed the mic to introduce the show, but som...
Drake's OVO Fest is now in its fifth year, but this was the first year that the festival is a two-day affair. This was initially supposed to...
After an eight-year hiatus, Dilated Peoples return with their fifth full-length album Directors of Photography on August 12 on Rhymesayers....
On his tenth album, Common chooses to focus on his Chicago hometown, a city that has been beset by increasing violence over the past few yea...