The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Rico Nasty, Samara Cyn, and Sexyy Red. With summer ...

So much rap music comes out all the time, and especially with frequent surprise releases, it can be hard to keep track of it all. So, as a way to help keep up with all of it, here’s a roundup of the 5 ...

It wasn't until Jasmine Garsd and I started Alt.Latino in 2010 that I considered hip-hop's impact on the Spanish-speaking world. In fact, I remember very vividly the moment she introduced me to ...

Find out how fast Wiz Khalifa is able to deliver a high-level guest verse on the fly from his most recent collaborator Shwayze. Shwayze says Wiz Khalifa is working at the speed of light when it ...

Here’s one important Tyler, The Creator moment: Earlier this year, Tyler headlined Coachella, a festival that’s always loomed large in the mythology of a Southern California alt-rap star.

Experimental hip hop trio Clouddead is now a long distant memory for former vocalist Yoni Wolf. When the band split after its final album, Ten (2004), Wolf immediately went solo, fronting the ...

Cryptic Wisdom, the hybrid alt-rap project of Arizona-bred songwriter David Gonzalez, is an outlet for the MC to explore his fatherless childhood, struggles with sobriety, and the feeling of ...

I think oftentimes what was given kind of the name of alt hip-hop were communities in hip-hop that did not fit or match the kind of boundaries or to some degree, tropes of what people imagine hip ...

Arriving without very much fanfare, “Timeless” does exactly that, tapping ’90s LA alt-rap staples Pharcyde and pairing them with a borderline Neptunes-ish beat that brings a new dimension to ...

The rapper Residente is just one Latin hip-hop artist Alt.Latino has featured on the show. I was born before hip-hop existed. In fact, I was in my 20s as the music made its way into a wider world ...

Alt.Latino's Felix Contreras reflects on Latin hip-hop's legacy and presents the best episodes across the show's archive that speak to the... I was born before hip-hop existed. In fact ...