The Neptunes would go on to work with many of the 2000s’ biggest stars, helping to transform the careers of Justin ...

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Up considers the most notable singles of the past week. Today, Harley Geffner reviews new work from Lucki, Jackboy, and more.

Video Music Box co-founder Ralph McDaniels will be honored by the Paid In Full Foundation this weekend in Las Vegas.

Growing up in East Tennessee, it wasn’t uncommon for your neighbor or grocery cashier or mailman to ask, unprompted, if you’d found your “church home” yet; my devoutly religious first-grade teacher ...

At this point, we know the supposed story: Napster and the internet in general leveled the playing field for hip-hop. Blogs and message boards helped artists and scenes transcend location and ...

Editor’s note: Over the course of this year, we’re publishing a series of essays about the rap albums that defined 2001, both creatively and industrially, and whether they predicted or were abandoned ...

You can see the living wraiths limping around the 19-story Regional Justice Center, mumbling about crystal meth fixes and spare change as the attorneys skirt around them in cream sport coats and ...

Editor’s note: Over the course of this year, we’re publishing a series of essays about the rap albums that defined 2001, both creatively and industrially, and whether they predicted or were abandoned ...

Though the record is called the hermit, shemar and Sasco have a distinctly pro-social approach to their work. The duo—the former a rapper-producer whose serpentine flows are vehicles for deeply ...