A new wave of Indigenous artists in Mexico blends rap, cumbia, and electronic music with ancient languages like Mayan and Zapotec to preserve cultural identity.

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On the surprise release ‘Don't Tap the Glass,’ his second new album in less than a year, Tyler wants us to dance like no one's watching.

From Fetty Wap to Lil Uzi Vert to Playboi Carti, Boardroom breaks down how the platform paved the way for low-cost ...

Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. This week, Alphonse ...

From mixtape gems to chart-topping hits, Pharrell Williams has revealed time and again just how sharp his lyrical skills really are. Check out his verses here.

These instrumental one-hit wonders are on another level, and I can totally see why people loved them despite being lyric-free.

Sheldon Pearce writes on Elias Williams’s “Straight Loops, Light & Soul,” about the underground beat-maker scene in Queens, evoking Roy DeCarava and the music of J Dilla.

The best rap beats are nerdy as hell. Every drum placement, every melody, every chopped-up sample sends me down a YouTube rabbit hole trying to piece together the way a producer contorts and ...

DJ Mustard has revealed that multiple rappers passed on the instrumental for Kendrick Lamar’s GNX track “Hey Now” before the rapper finally got his hands on the beat. In an interview with ...

News News: Grammy Award-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco has been appointed as a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University's Peabody Institute. Starting in Fall 2 ...

In a compelling interview on Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D speaks with Suhel Nafar, a visionary in Arab hip-hop and head of Empire Records’ West Asia, North Africa, and Diaspora division. As a ...