Summer is ending! And you have some work to do. Did you experience that season-defining moment? That rooftop conversation, that carefree weekend of intense interpersonal bonding? Did you find the…   Read Story »

This week, probably just because the world is a wonderful place, the members of the ferocious California rap quartet Black Hippy have been posting free songs on the internet. In the past few days,…   Read Story »

L.A.'s Black Hippy may be one of the most exciting rap crews to emerge in recent years, but all four members of the group don't appear together on the same song very often. When they do, it's cause…   Read Story »

The new Schoolboy Q video for Habits & Contraditions standout "There He Go" features the bucket-hat-bedecked rapper chilling with the rest of the TDE crew, his movements and thoughts accented by…   Read Story »

Russian Roulette, the new album from veteran rap producer Alchemist, is a long and freaked collage of raps and found-sound splurges and bits of old Soviet propaganda. So it only makes sense that the…   Read Story »

At ginormous festivals like Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, it's pretty tough to craft a narrative -- when there's something like 200 bands playing over a weekend, it's next to impossible to really sew a…   Read Story »

The Alchemist has been producing rap records for something like two decades now, going back to the days when he was in a major-label white-rap duo with a teenaged Scott Caan. Lately, he's been making…   Read Story »

Here's the clip for ASAP Rocky and Schoolboy Q's LiveLoveA$AP collaboration "Brand New Guy," a steely street diary that finds the ASAP Mob and the TDE representative Q rolling around NYC. It's a…   Read Story »

Harlem's Smoke DZA will drop Rugby Thompson later this summer, a record that will be produced entirely by Harry Fraud and from which we've already heard the wrestler-referencing lead single "New…   Read Story »

Community star Donald Glover has been rapping as Childish Gambino for a while now, and many of us remain utterly unconvinced by his general rapping ability. Give the guy credit for good taste,…   Read Story »