God, 4 Your Eyez Only is good.   It's like a chef serving up something simple, a plateful of tomatoes, basil and buffalo mozzarella, perha...

Shortly before we got on the phone with Mac Miller, we were advised by someone at his record label that we would get "a much better intervie...

It's always pleasing when an artist who has been hustling for years finally cracks a big deal, signs to a major label, gets the budget of th...

A concept album about love would sound like the most played-out, hackneyed, overdone musical concept ever from most artists, the kind of thi...

Anything But Words (out now on Warner) should not work as well as it does. The collaboration between Wu-Tang Clan's RZA and Interpol's Paul...

While Banks & Steelz — the union of Interpol's Paul Banks and Wu-Tang Clan's RZA (under his Bobby Steelz moniker) — may get some unfortunate...

There are few subgenres more intimidating to rap newbies than drill. It's bass-driven, slang-heavy, gutter as fuck and, if you're a purist,...

If 2015 was the year Dr. Dre and Kendrick Lamar led a triumphant parade down the streets of Compton, 2016 is when the Game comes along, a ye...

A Craig G album? In 2016? It's like an entry on a Buzzfeed list: Thing Only '80s Kids Will Understand. Then again, we live in a confusing, t...

No one in hip-hop has gotten more mileage out of a single shtick than Madchild. No one. You'd think that after ten solo albums, 11 Swollen M...

Tech N9ne has sold over a million records independently, amassed more than 20 different projects and turned his label Strange Music into one...

Less than a year after his ban on entering the United States was rescinded, Madchild of Swollen Members has shed light on the group's increa...

The best thing about Swollen Members has always been their inherent menace: the idea that it's just possible that they've discovered a secre...