With Randy Maples, better known as Trandle, that answer is yes. Stylish and scrappy, his debut album, hi key low key, has plenty to offer as a portrait of a young Durham beatmaker sharpening his craft ...
Los Angeles–based multi-instrumentalist and producer Nate Franchesco continues to carve out a unique creative lane by merging ...
It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...
2024 was a crazy year, but it was actually a really good year for Hip-Hop. Check out some of the best albums of the year, but we left space for you to tell us YOUR favorite! 2024 was an insane year ...
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As it celebrates its 50th birthday, we are mapping hip-hop's story on a local level, with more than a dozen city-specific histories of the music and culture. Click here to see the entire list. If you ...
How to encompass half a century of hip-hop? You start by acknowledging you can’t. Too many stars, too many songs, too many places, too many scandals: Hip-hop is an entire universe — a musical genre, ...
If 2015 was known as the year hip-hop rekindled its May-December romance with jazz and bum-rushed Broadway with Hamilton, these last 12 months have seen the art form bridging both genre and age gaps ...