—ED Iggy Azalea, The New Classic 2014 was a year of prosperity and growth for Iggy Azalea, and her debut LP, The New Classic, was the launching pad that got her there. The album proved to a gang of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hip-hop artists including rappers Nas and Somalia-born K’naan will take center stage in an unexpected place next year, highlighting their generation and art form alongside opera, ...

Since the early days of Donald Trump’s political rise, mental health experts have argued over the ethics of diagnosing the once-and-wannabe-again POTUS from a distance. There is one stark precedent, ...

O.K. so, we as a Hip-Hop community, didn’t have any platinum albums this year. None the matter. Thanks to the avenues made possible from the culture’s expansion (and/or whitewashing in some cases), ...

Forty years after its birth, hip-hop is everywhere, a global signifier of youthfulness and subversion and opulence and Americanness and blackness and menace, sometimes all at once. But for all the ...

What’s your favorite current Seattle band? If you have trouble answering (or if you draw a blank after Macklemore), we’re not going to judge. But we are going to suggest it’s time to check in with the ...

On this date in 2014, Yonkers rap veterans The L.O.X., Jadakiss, Styles P, and Sheek Louch, dropped The Trinity: 2nd Sermon, the follow-up to their 2013 comeback project The Trinity EP. Coming off a ...