You can often learn just as much—if not more—by examining the downtrodden periods of a genre as opposed to only looking at the highs. So, after we ranked the best years in rap history earlier this ...

HIP-HOP WAS BORN in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary, “Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists throughout ...

Now … you really don’t have to be a rapper to be a rapper! Microsoft is about to enter the Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) space. According to Music Business ...

For early fans of the Philadelphia-born rap group The Roots, it might seem impossible to believe just how well-known and popular the band has become. Led by Questlove and Black Thought, The Roots are ...

Ask anyone. The 1990s were the Golden Age of hip-hop. The sweet spot where modern technology met the genre’s classic tenets. There were so many deep cuts on albums from both well-known and ...

The goal of a documentary is dynamic storytelling. In the past, music documentaries like Hip-Hop Evolution, Fight the Power, and Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy have accomplished that goal, leading ...

It’s here. After five years teasing a new project in the wake of “Whole Lotta Red,” Playboi Carti finally delivered his newest full-length project “Music,” albeit under heavy legal pressure due to ...