Blacc Sam and JP discuss how Nipsey Hussle’s ‘The Marathon’ mixtape grew into a thriving empire across music, fashion, food, ...

The Drake album title is a thing of beauty: Only an artist forged in the fires of Myspace would consistently have album titles more apt as vague status updates. Similarly, Drake's album covers are a ...

The last time we heard from Future was when he and Metro Boomin teamed up for We Don’t Trust You and We Still Don’t Trust You back in March and April, respectively. That was five months ago, which is ...

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, ...

“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 ...

The emergence of significant DSPs like Spotify and Apple Music may have effectively ended the mixtape era. Before these streaming giants existed, music fans would head to sites like My Mixtapez, ...

It only took ten years, but Travis Scott’s beloved mixtape Days Before Rodeo was finally added to streaming services today. The project arrived just a year before his official debut album Rodeo, and ...

The past two decades of hip-hop music have been well-documented, thanks to social media and streaming platforms. Today, anyone with internet access can essentially tap into a database of their ...

I LISTENED TO the same cassette tape almost every day for six weeks in 1981. My whole family did. We took a camping trip with a borrowed pop-up tent trailer that we pulled behind our station wagon. We ...

Just in time for the holiday, Layzie Bone—a living legend as a founding member of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony—is dropping Smoke With Me Vol. 1 on April 20, a new mixtape composed entirely of weed-themed ...