Egyptian Lover's Roland TR-808 drum machine is customized with hieroglyphics and themed patterns Credit: Jay Godwin / LBJ Presidential Library Hip-hop is officially middle-aged, but its mortality is ...

If you’re a fan of the underground hip hop scene, you’re surely familiar with the prolific New York MC Papoose.

The 13-track project features Doja Cat and SZA. By Heran Mamo Lizzo released her My Face Hurts From Smiling mixtape on Friday (June 27) via Nice Life and Atlantic Records. The 13-track project ...

This will be The Game's first entry in DJ Drama's legendary "Gangsta Grillz" mixtape series, which he cut down from 60 tracks to the best 19. "Yeah, it's gon' be good, man," he expressed. "It's my ...

From Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to Machine Gun Kelly, the new Cleveland Public Library exhibit curated by Big Heff brings two ...

The Houston rapper's new single has thrust her into the center of an incredibly nuanced conversation about race in America. By Kyle Denis Exactly one week after marrying North Carolina rapper Stunna 4 ...

Hip-hop fans are in for a treat. Cardi B is making a comeback with her new album. Destroy Lonely continues his music series.

Affordable blank cassette tapes in the late 1970s turned ordinary listeners into curators, giving everyone the tools to share music on their own terms. The order of songs on a mixtape was never random ...

I’m from the small Central Illinois town of Decatur. My hometown is one of the sites where the war on drugs and many of its battles took place. In 2018, Decatur was listed at number seven in USA Today ...

DETROIT — Inside, the studio is small and sterile. The walls are white; the smell is clean; the air is humid. The structure sits on top of a heating and cooling store. Scattered about are a tan ...

Peckham-born songwriter, producer and rapper Moriah Mensah has released her debut mixtape MENSAH, a 9-track project blending hyperpop, pop, R&B and ...