To read more about the background of this list and my thoughts on making it, check out the introduction to my rankings. Without further ado, here are #80-71 of my top 100 hip-hop/rap albums of the ...

They're all highly respected in the world of old-school rap. And they all hit the Top 40 just once in their careers.

The best albums of 1991 – the year grunge, hip-hop, electronic, and alternative crashed in, forever altering rock's landscape ...

Hip-hop was created in 1973, and during that decade, it was a genre still in its early stages that was more DJ-centric with focuses on b-boy dances and live performances. However, by the time the ...

Tyler, The Creator has marked the end of 2025 with a new freestyle. Check it out below. Released on Christmas Day, ‘Sag Harbor’ sees him look back on 2025 while also wondering what will come next, ...

Before hip-hop topped charts, it was raw, political, and underground. From New York basements to 2Pac’s rage, here’s how “street music” broke through. From the underground of New York to Philadelphia, ...

Before the Grammys, the Pulitzer, and the global arena tours, Kendrick Lamar was just a sharp-tongued kid out of Compton, speaking truth over soulful, left-field beats. On July 2, 2011, he gave the ...

Rap in the 1980s had a sound all its own. It was a revolutionary time when this type of music was just beginning to see widespread popularity. Before the 80s, there was no rap on the radio, and most ...

The dynamic duo that still has a spot on many hip-hop lovers’ Top Five list has a fascinating backstory that is just as much business as it is personal. If you listened to hip-hop in the late 1980s ...