The Rap-Up considers the most notable singles of the past week. Today, Anthony Seaman reviews new work from a variety of contemporary artists as well as old work by some titans.

New heat from dawn richard, Joyce Wrice, Rhys Langston, Jeremiah Chiu, Bruiser Wolf & Harry Fraud, Che Noir, Sunset Tim & Heather Grey, Teller Bank$, Thundercat & Button Masher, Mike Ladd, Genevieve A...

Thirty years later, two writers return to the album that served as a crossroads for hip-hop.

Twenty years after the fact, Andrew Friedman goes deep on ten LPs he insists deserve a second look.

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Arielle Gordon traces the one-time superstar’s drift toward respectability.

Matthew Ritchie talks with Ohio-born, Los Angeles-based producer megiapa about the challenges she gave herself on her new album Intentions.

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The sixth installment of our series reexamining hip-hop in the year 2001 revisits an album about your boss, your body, your time on Earth.

Paul Thompson considers the new short film starring the Outkast legend—and announces an exclusive POW giveaway.

Paul Thompson considers the new short film starring the Outkast legend—and announces an exclusive POW giveaway.

The Rap-Up considers the most notable singles of the past week. Today, Donald Morrison reviews new work from Kodak Black, Cash Cobain, Rio Da Yung Og, and more.

The Earl Sweatshirt protege’s latest album is poised and pointed.

Spanning two exhaustively researched and stylistically composed volumes, Catch Us Before We Fall Off: a [ch]oral history of anticon is an audacious document of a pivotal moment in hip-hop history.Calt...

The fifth installment of our series reexamining hip-hop in the year 2001 is an excerpt from Joseph Rathgeber’s Catch Us Before We Fall Off: a [ch]oral history of anticon.

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Fifty years after Songs In The Key Of Life, four songs from Stevie Wonder’s famously impenetrable vault have been made public.

Protomartyr’s latest record, Hotel Usona, is an examination of this American moment. It’s not exactly subtle—but what about the present is?

The anticon. co-founder talks about his new album, David Lynch, Mark Rothko’s suicide, and much more.

The Rap-Up considers the most notable singles of the past week. Today, Harley Geffner reviews new work from JRedie, 50Droppin, Sayy Dat, and more.

Big Boi and Andre 3000 are suing an up-and-coming rapper over a practice that predates all parties involved.