This year's best hip-hop — including Westside Gunn, Mach-Hommy and Moor Mother — comes from death and defiance, erotic power and provocation, Black joy and pain — and that's just the shortlist.

Last year, we posted a list of independent hip hop releases of 2020 that we recommend buying on Bandcamp, and if you’re missing any of those, we still recommend them. But as it’s a new year ...

In 2021, with hip-hop the dominant musical force in ... Hip-hop long ago reconciled with its ... It covers party music (Sir Mix-A-Lot, Ludacris, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz) and ...

ZOD1AC, an instrumental hip-hop artist based in Akron, Ohio who draws influences from a diverse mix of genres, including jazz, boom bap, ambient, shoegaze, downtempo and classical in addition to ...