How Hip-Hop Up-And-Comer AZ Chike’s Debut LP ‘No Rest for the Wicked’ Survived a Leak and Scored Co-Signs From Kendrick Lamar & Tyler, the Creator

It's been two years since he stole the show on "Peekaboo," a standout from Kendrick Lamar's GNX that reached No. 13 on the ...

Kendrick Lamar Reportedly Had the Highest-Grossing Touring Year in Rap History

Kendrick Lamar's Grand National Tour with SZA grosses $390.7 million across 47 shows, setting the highest-grossing touring ...
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Hip-hop legend Darryl ‘DMC’ McDaniels making appearance at Wichita’s Somewhere Fest

McDaniels, a founding member of Run-DMC, told KSN he will join Two Lot during the band's set on Friday night.
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So What Exactly is Experimental Rap Anyway? We Asked Six Rappers, Producers and Journalists

Earlier this month, JPEGMAFIA got the computers ‘putin ahead of his EXPERIMENTAL RAP album. He told Pigeons & Planes that he was claiming the throne as “The King” of experimental rap, which turned ...

Jay-Z revisits how Biggie and 2Pac’s friendship unraveled into hip-hop’s most infamous feud

In a conversation with Rick Rubin, Jay-Z offered his perspective on the personal tensions, misunderstandings and media ...
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2XO and Sugarhill Gang blend hip-hop history into bourbon

2XO Whiskey and the Sugarhill Gang Drop "Rapper's Delight" — The Hip-Hop Blend That Was Decades in the Making Some product ...

David Banner Is Building a New Model for Southern Hip-Hop

Renowned rapper and producer David Banner remembers taking dialect classes, where instructors urged him to soften the ...
Phoenix New Times

New book celebrates the long relationship between rock and hip-hop

An epiphany hit early in Steven Blush’s “When Rock Met Hip-Hop” (Backbeat Books, 2026). I felt dumb for never making the connection until now. Rap and punk, argues critic Carlo McCormick, followed a ...