If a rap single hasn’t gone number one on the Billboard Hot 100, does that mean the genre is in decline? “I think that now the genre is as interesting as ever because of how quickly it's mutating,” ...

G Herbo was performing at Brooklyn Steel, a midsize, no-frills venue located in a dead section of Williamsburg. It was February 27, 2020, and the Chicago rapper was set to drop his third album, PTSD, ...

Despite how they’ve at times been ideologically pitted against one another, country music and hip-hop are often compared as the two forms of pop music that speak most directly to the everyday problems ...

So far this year, during hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, massive tributes at shows like the MTV Awards and the Grammys highlighted the rappers from the past and present who’ve made hip-hop a ...

Editor's Note: This post was originally published in March 2020 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Last weekend, Drake released “When To Say When,” an introspective track that utilized the ...

Blue Chips is a monthly rap column that doubles as a scouting report. Each month, SPIN selects a new starting five, a group of rappers who could be Rookie of the Year candidates turned Hall-of-Famers ...

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, ...

Shaquille O'Neal and Damian Lillard are the two who have generated the staying power to make it as an NBA standout and as a ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...

Since its birth, Hip-Hop has been a platform to confront real life problems and emotions the African-American culture has faced. The genre has broken through various social barriers to talk about the ...