My book, Being Dope: Hip Hop & Theory through Mixtape Memoir, published in December 2025 by Oxford University Press, details ...

Dope House Records celebrates 30 years of independence with If Animals Could Talk, a 30-track Christmas Day release from SPM ...

That’s the case with albums from Lamar and Clipse, as well as J.I.D’s God Does Like Ugly. (J.I.D has long been a respected lyricist too.) Markman is also impressed with the growth that Tyler, the ...

Rap in 2025 was all about experimentation. From the year’s first runaway hit, NBA player-turned-musician Gelo’s single “Tweaker,” to the maximalist ecclesiastics of Playboi Carti’s Music, or even in ...

Every year, we’re told that hip-hop is in crisis. But if you ask us, it feels like there’s too much heat to keep up with. What’s lost on the chart-watchers lamenting rap’s mainstream lull is that the ...

Recently, in casual conversations, I’ve been asked for my opinion about the October report that “No Rap Songs Are in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990” more so than my ...

Abraham Quintanilla Jr., the polarizing father of the late Tejano legend Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, has died. He was 86. Quintanilla Jr. died Saturday, Dec. 13, according to an Instagram post by his ...

Two days after Rob and Michele Reiner were found dead in their Los Angeles home, new details are being shared on the couple's death. During a press conference held by the Los Angeles County District ...

Like A Ribbon goes down as one of 2025’s best rap albums and one of its best electronic albums, and sometimes it’s home to some of the year’s best post-punk and bedroom pop too. It transcends easy ...

Hip-hop may be associated more with brags and bling than goodwill and giving, but the best Christmas hip-hop and R&B songs are gifts that keep on giving. “Let it snow” might mean something different ...