the social experiment

There’s plenty of new music to sift through. How do you know what is good or bad? Well, that’s where we come in. Aside from a busy week of interesting news, there’s always a plethora of dope music that drops. Sometimes it’s out of nowhere, and sometimes it is promoted and released right when we expect it. As rap heads, we are a...

Boys Noize and Chilly Gonzales—aka Octave Minds—enlist the help of Chance The Rapper and his band, The Social Experiment, for "Tap Dance." The song is pretty solid and falls in the same line as Chance's “Wonderful Everyday: Arthur” as a fun, feel good record. Take a listen below...

When XXL released its 2014 Freshmen Cover last month, one of the biggest talking points among hip-hop fans was the strong presence of Chicago rappers. With Chance The Rapper, Lil Bibby, Lil Durk and Vic Mensa all making our list this year, it marked the first time in the cover's seven-year history that a single city was rewarded with four XXL Freshmen, and brought Chicago's total Freshmen tally up