Everyone’s favorite block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018) just got its first-ever hip hop mixtape, featuring some of the biggest hits in hip hop from the early ’90s until today. The Hip Hop ...

Spotify‘s Gimlet is tapping a nostalgic vein with “Mogul Mixtapes,” a throwback interview series taking listeners back to iconic moments in hip-hop history. The new show is a spinoff of critically ...

It’s no secret that there are a lot of hip-hop documentaries. As the first genre to really break in an era where it could be widely documented in real time by camcorders, tape recorders, and ...

In a decade that saw the release of 22 Young Thug projects, the 28-year old rapper from Atlanta gave fans a massive quantity of music to choose from. Arguably his greatest artistic statement came in ...

New books collecting objects central to rap’s physical history demonstrate the importance of celebrating these relics before they vanish. Credit... Supported by By Jon Caramanica For the last year, ...

50 Cent performs during a taping for "MTV Spring Break 2003" in Miami Beach, Florida. (Credit: Scott Gries/Getty Images) Curtis Jackson III was born in Queens, New York, on July 6, 1975. In the late ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, and all-star celebrations are taking place across the world throughout 2023 — including a big 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop Mixtape Live concert on June ...

Pressing altered versions of classic projects into boutique collector’s items sends a fuzzy message in a significant year, Nadine Smith writes. This year has been filled with countless tributes to rap ...

In 1995, Outkast’s André 3000 and Big Boi walked onstage at the second Source Awards at New York City’s Paramount Theater, where the Atlanta duo had just been awarded best new group of the year by the ...

Curtis Jackson III was born in Queens, New York, on July 6, 1975. In the late ’90s, he began his rap career as 50 Cent, and made friends and enemies all over Queens, recording with Run-DMC’s Jam ...