Washington, DC rapper GoldLink has just released his debut album And After That, We Didn't Talk on Soulection. It's an extension of his crit...

When GoldLink first emerged with The God Complex, the often introspective and insightful lyricism was slightly overshadowed by the fixation...

Before it was the 6ix, Toronto was the T-dot. While he didn't make up the term, no one contributed more to its popularity than Kardinal Offi...

Kardinal Offishall has been a Canadian hip-hop mainstay for almost 20 years. His irrefutable mic skills and West Indian influences, as well...

Based on the novel by Nigerian author Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation is an impressive film that distinguishes itself through its atten...

UK MC Little Simz has released a slew of free music via stellar mixtapes like Blank Canvas, E.D.G.E. and her Age 101 series in collaboration...

One of the first things North London MC Little Simz says on A Curious Tale of Trials + Persons is that she's a "king." As someone who has of...

Little Simz's rise over the past couple of years has been nothing short of impressive. The 21-year-old North London MC demonstrated her lyri...

It's been six years since Dâm-Funk last released a solo record, but it feels like he's hasn't really been away that long. That's because sin...

While it's billed as a Method Man solo album, The Meth Lab is ostensibly an album on which Method Man prominently features his crew. After l...

With his latest EP Wave[s], 24-year-old Chicago MC Mick Jenkins is continuing to build on the success of his critically acclaimed mixtape Th...

With some of hip-hop's biggest mainstream stars of the past couple of decades already having hip-hop films attached to them, F. Gary Gray's...

Compton is the album we didn't realize we wanted from Dr. Dre.   While we all thought we were waiting for the long-gestating and intermina...

The 2011 death of singer Amy Winehouse at the age of 27 seemed like a depressingly inevitable outcome when it actually occurred. Despite the...

Like many of his previous efforts, Statik Selektah's seventh album Lucky 7 features the respected producer's hard-edged East Coast productio...

Near the beginning of What Happened, Miss Simone? (screening June 26 on Netflix), Nina Simone responds to a reporter's question of what free...

It's been almost 15 years since Pete Rock released the original Petestrumentals album on BBE records back in 2001, and listening to this lon...

At NXNE last year, Toronto singer Allie turned heads with her performance at Massey Hall. Despite the decidedly more intimate environs of th...

Performance poet, playwright and MC Kate Tempest's Mercury Prize-nominated full-length Everybody Down is an album that analyzes youth and cl...

After his DJ spun a few hip-hop classics, 18-year-old Bishop Nehru took the Adelaide Hall stage rocking a Tommy Hilfiger windbreaker. These...