CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The rise of streaming and its massive effect on record sales has pretty much done away with the art of the mixtape. That's a shame considering just how much the platform changed hip ...

On “Ditto,” the last track on My Face Hurts From Smiling, a surprising rap mixtape from a certain four-time Grammy winner, the star in question declares, “It’s a Lizzo summerrrrrrr.” The tape — which ...

Doechii — who already has three wide-ranging hits under her belt in the 2000s R&B coded “What It Is (Block Boy),” “Yucky Blucky Fruitcake,” which goes from buzzy hip-hop to boom bap, and the housey ...

January 2025 kicked off with a major ice storm across the U.S. and Canada dumping more than a foot of snow across multiple states and provinces. And the frost isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, with ...

The whole album is available on bandcamp.com, and according to the description, it was a fledgling project. “Made in a bedroom 1999 these mixtapes were never really finished,” it reads. “Lyrics ...

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, ...

Some may call him Loso. Others may call him Funeral Fab. A few of his more tenured disciples occasionally refer to him as Ghetto. But one thing that rap fans all know Fabolous as is one of the more ...

Hip-Hop’s Biggest First-Week Sales for Projects in 2025 Chance The Rapper, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Kevin Gates and More – New Hip-Hop Projects Chance The Rapper, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Kevin ...

What is the difference between an album, a project, a mixtape and an EP? The question comes at the end of a year in which the mixtape has been rendered all but dead, but EPs have ballooned to as many ...

Yeah, it stirred the Yankees to the World Series championship, but was there a more boring album this year than Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3? Perhaps it was a geographic thing; with a few exceptions like ...