The Alchemist has added his two cents on the topic that had Rap Twitter in a frenzy this week.

"Rap music is still all over the top 40; it's just not being made by rappers," Stereogum's Tom Breihan observed in a column ...

Although hip-hop as a genre is no stranger to the concept album as a format, there would be little resistance to the assessment that there’s been a bit of a drought of such projects over the past few ...

In 50 years, rap transformed the English language, bringing the Black vernacular’s vibrancy to the world. “Dave, the dope fiend shootin’ dope.” — Slick Rick, “Children’s Story” (1988) “Dopeman, ...

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: ...

Hip-hop is in a complicated place right now. It’s not the dominant force it once was, but it remains the engine of popular music, with flashier, more global genres borrowing its strategies, sounds, ...