The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Ken Carson, Lil Yachty and Sexyy Red.

Several of the most lauded hip-hop songs in music history have achieved diamond status—10 million sold or more—according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). For these ...

Rather than simply a genre, hip-hop is a culture – one chiefly expressed and disseminated through rap music. That notion of “keeping it real” – has been at its core. As ever with popular ...

The Best New Hip-Hop ... of its instrumental it’s easy to see why it was left off the original tracklist. But it’s a dope curio of a specific time and place in hip-hop, and a solid showing ...

African-American DJs, such as Grandmaster Flash and the Jamaican-born 'father of hip-hop' Kool Herc, extended the instrumental sections ... and the music often included drum machines and synthesizers.

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like 1900Rugrat and ... which quickly gives way to a Prince-esque instrumental breakdown in the outro. — KYLE DENIS Fridayy ...

This week in Philly music features alt-metal with the Deftones, indie rock from the Weather Station, hip-hop from Kool Keith, a two-day Decibel metal and beer festival, and a Burt Bacharach tribute ...

Hip hop, traditional music and jazz combine to impressive effect on two new songs from Freestyle Master, write Olaf Furniss ...