A cultural shift that started 50 years ago in the Bronx, New York wouldn’t be what it is without 1086 East 17th Street in Winston-Salem. It was at that Cleveland Avenue Homes address where a ...

Swank & King Draft‘s highly anticipated album, VICE CITY, produced under the esteemed guidance of legendary producer 9th Wonder. Dropping this Friday, April 19th, this album is a culmination of Swank ...

Unless you’re an aspiring emcee looking for some quick beats to rhyme over, it might be hard to wrap your dollar bills around any legitimate hip-hop producer’s instrumental releases. Many of us don’t ...

“The Light,” the angriest track on the debut collaboration between Mississippi rapper David Banner and Durham producer 9th Wonder, uses this disdain-filled couplet as its hook: “Started livin’ for ...

His beats tend to marry raw, air-popping drums — which sound like they’re being beatboxed through wet lips — with yearning howls from old gospel records. And over the years the results from this ...

As the third week of 2024 comes to a close, the rap game delivers another round of fresh new music, just in time for the weekend kickback. This batch of new offerings includes a hilarious rapper-actor ...

The Beast, a hip-hop quartet featuring emcee Pierce Freelon brings multi Grammy nominee jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon into the group for Freedom Suite, a collection of original songs, classic ...

Q-Tip doesn’t think that there should be a new subgenre of Hip-Hop. He expressed his thoughts on X following legendary producer 9th Wonder’s recent call for a new one to be made. 9th Wonder shared his ...

Since the release of Kendrick Lamar's Damn, a lot of talk has focused on the album-closing track "Duckworth," which tells an eerie story about a long-ago run-in between TDE chief Anthony "Top Dawg" ...