As prolific and combative as rap has been this year, the one rapper who could be said to have been more productive than ...

The 2015 album “Days With Dr. Yen Lo” by Dr. Yen Lo — the duo of Ka and the producer Preservation — has thematic nods to “The ...

The album breaks down genre barriers we didn’t even know were there. Audrey Nuna Breaks Down New Album TRENCH Track by Track: ...

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Lexa Gates and Dajah Dorn. Between Megan Thee Stallion‘s “Hiss” and Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar‘s “Like That,” hip-hop ...

Snoop Dogg wants to see more originality in rap these days. The Doggfather said in a new interview that he believes there are ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...

Both the group’s name and the title of the album are an illustration of the 1991 John Grisham legal-thriller novel The Firm.

With sharp lyricism and a hard-hitting beat, “IT’S MY EGO” reflects Ice Cube’s signature style, blending West Coast rap with ...

Ka, dead at 52, was an unlikely hero: a middle-aged moonlighter whose haunting, violence-flecked albums became a world unto ...

Every time I listen to the sophomore album from the New York-based trio, I feel myself trying to find my ’90s-era African ...

12 at the age of 52, was a one-of-one hip-hop visionary who left a legacy as brilliantly idiosyncratic as any the genre has ...