Thirty-six years ago, on February 7, 1989, 2 Live Crew dropped their groundbreaking and controversial album As Nasty As They Wanna Be, released through Uncle Luke’s indie imprint Luke Skyywalker ...

From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the ...

Hip-hop is no longer solely youth culture; it’s just culture, with cross-generational scenes full of artists intent on capturing their era’s zeitgeist. But Raekwon The Chef’s latest solo album, The ...

The “Take the Money and Run” singer’s 1977 No. 2 hit “Fly Like an Eagle” has turned up in “It’s Time,” a new track by hip-hop ...

When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...

A trio of records that display both what rap music can be and some of the best to perform it. Indeed, these are three classic ’90s rap albums that will make music fans pine for the golden era of ...

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The last decade of hip-hop history is about the destruction of consensus. The neat, precise stories we once told about rap music in the '90s have unraveled to a degree, as regional histories and ...

Al Pacino’s iconic portrayal of Tony Montana in the 1983 film Scarface has left an indelible mark on cinema, but its journey from critical skepticism to cult classic status is largely attributed to an ...

Hip-hop is no longer solely youth culture; it's just culture, with cross-generational scenes full of artists intent on capturing their era's zeitgeist. But Raekwon The Chef's latest solo album, The ...