Lupe Fiasco is at his finest when he’s not artistically constrained, instead free to A&R his own project and entirely control its direction. For his ...

Ludacris has used hip-hop as a springboard in a way that only a few of his peeps have been able. After solid albums, mixtpaes, singles, ...

How did 2 Chainz do it? How did the man formerly best known for playing second-string to Lil Wayne on “Duffle Bag Boy” become one ...

The state of Gangsta rap has recently been under a lot of scrutiny but maybe that's the lack of aggressive content.   Since dropping their ...

It’s been a long time coming. Since joining Kanye West's G.O.O.D Music fold last year, cocksure wordsmith and one half of the Clipse, Pusha T, ...

Waking up to the moon and going to sleep to the sun, Jim Jones serves up his latest batch of Harlem slick talk and humorous ...

Fat Joe’s 2010 street album The Darkside Vol. 1 found the BX hip-hop vet returning to his roots—high octane coke rap. With his follow-up, The ...

It’s been more than a minute since we’ve heard from Nipsey Hussle. But the Los Angeles representative and former XXL Freshman is back, focused and ...

After building an incredible buzz with his online smashes, “Purple Swag” and “Peso,” A$AP Rocky has already earned himself a multi-million dollar deal on Polo ...