On his fourth studio album, Trials and Tribulations, Florida-based MC Ace Hood finally manages to live up to the hype. As someone who's been...

This new mixtape from Brooklyn, NY-based teenage rap phenom Joey Bada$$ was originally supposed to be an EP-length offering. Then, a little...

The Remix Project isn't where Toronto's Rich Kidd started making beats ― he was producing before the community arts organization ever...

If you were hoping Action Bronson's major label debut, SAAAB Stories, would be another Blue Chips, you're going to be a little disappointed....

Regardless of what you think of Lil Wayne as an artist, or a human for that matter, it's hard not to be fascinated by him. By the time Wayne...

Saying a Kid Cudi album is weird is like saying water is wet; it's just kind of a given. His new record, Indicud, is almost certainly the on...

If you're looking for more over-the-top, inflammatory for the sake of shock rap from Tyler, the Creator, you'll be fairly pleased with his t...

There's much to like on Beautiful Death Machine, Swollen Members' eighth studio album: the production is dark, ominous and heavy, while Mad...

What is it? Lo-fi, ambient hip-hop featuring unconventional samples, ethereal sounds and a tendency towards slow, blunted delivery. It's ei...

To say that Ill Bill's latest, The Grimy Awards, is a bit of a mixed bag would be an understatement; it gives new meaning to the phrase, "fr...

Clocking in at a little over half-an-hour, this new free EP — how that's different from a mixtape, we're not totally sure — is a...

If there's one thing that stands out on Classified's new self-titled album (his 15th in an almost two-decade-long career), it's the producti...

It's nearly impossible to claim that Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors (the second solo effort from Outkast's Big Boi) is a perfect album, a...

The fifth studio album from Compton-based beef-master the Game, Jesus Piece, is almost a good record. No fewer than 20 guest high profile gu...

Saigon isn't going to win any new fans with latest album The Greatest Story Never Told Chapter 2: Bread and Circuses. It's not that it's a b...

According to Sheek Louch and Ghostface Killah, many of the beats on their upcoming Wu-Block record come from an unexpected source: CDs passe...

Vernon, BC-born, Vancouver-based MC/singer SonReal is very much a man of his time. Even ten years ago, Son would have struggled to find an a...

Vernon, BC-born, Vancouver-based MC/singer SonReal is very much a man of his time. Even ten years ago, Son would have struggled to find an a...

On 1991, last fall's viral rap wunderkind and hip-house revisionist Azealia Banks manages a feat that takes most rappers the better part of...

Let's get one thing out of the way up front. The answer to the question you're asking right now is, "no." No, after two studio full-lengths,...