The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from J. Cole, Rico Nasty, and Doechii.

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Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) and Aldous Harding share “No Front Teeth,” a surreal excursion that seesaws between pretty folk ...

Drake said it best when he rapped, “Damn, I swear sports and music are so synonymous.” Cause we want to be them, and they want to be us,” on “Thank Me Now” on his debut album, Thank Me Later. Hip Hop ...

UVa professor A.D. Carson's doctoral dissertation rap album "Owning My Masters" promises "the poems that people are scared to say out loud." ...

Freestyle rap battles have exploded into a billion-view global business, raking in millions—and now the cannabis industry wants a piece of the action.

In June 2024, T1 Entertainment dropped its “T1 All Stars” album, which featured Klazik along with Iowa-based hip-hop artists ...

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance was a message to people of color to unite and fight against the mainstream.

Kendrick Lamar and Drake have engaged in a prolonged feud of diss tracks. The latest? Drake has sued, and Lamar performed ...

Kendrick Lamar not only performed his Grammy-award-winning diss track against Drake, "Not Like Us" at the Super Bowl, he added more brutal digs.

Liverpool have been making some beautiful music on the pitch under Arne Slot this season. The Reds have been one of the most exciting teams in Europe, with the Kop’s chant of ‘poetry in motion’ ...

PS Hitsquad joins Kenny Allstar for a special Voice of the Streets. @1Xtra on social ...