This year’s Best Rap Album race should come down to Kendrick or Clipse, even if the other three nominees are all worthy in their own right. Lamar and Clipse, however, are lyrical titans. And while you ...

“The smooth criminal on beat breaks / Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes,” rapped Nas on his 1994 classic “N.Y. State of Mind.” Like other underground genres that hit their stride in the ...

Yesterday we kicked off the countdown with 50 of the best mixtapes released in 2010, and of course, all you readers were asking us why we were missing this artist or that mixtape. Well, the answer is ...

If you grew up in the same era as me, you had your notifications on, waiting for the moment Hoop Mixtape, Yay Area’s Finest, or Ball is Life dropped a new highlight reel. These were not just videos; ...

In part because, technically speaking, there is literally no competition. There Is No Competition 2, the long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s original from DJ Drama and Brooklyn firebrand Fabolous, is the ...