If Mobb Deep's The Infamous was the quintessential Queens album of the '90s, consider Gems From the Equinox the closest thing to its modern-...

With Perestroika, Apathy and OC aren't "rebuilding" (the literal of translation the Russian world used in reference to Mikhail Gorbachev's i...

Planet Asia and Apollo Brown have each preferred creating in tandem to self-imposed reinvention over their prolific careers, contentedly joi...

On I'll Call You Tomorrow II, Joey Fatts remains the same upstart hardened by his Long Beach hustles as when he dropped its predecessor in M...

Two decades into their illustrious careers, Talib Kweli and Styles P are bringing "edutainment" back to the forefront of hip-hop culture wit...

Nearly 18 months after DJ Dister enlisted Phat Kat for a ditty on Consistent Knockouts, the pair have taken their partnership 10 tracks furt...

For Your Old Droog, March 10 is the day it all stops: No more dismissals as a Nas clone, or a cryogenically frozen '90s traditionalist charg...

"History has a funny way of repeating itself." America is about to put yet a another dubious leader in the Oval Office, leaving KXNG Crooked...

Termanology has cranked out close to two-dozen projects, at a frenetic rate, but More Politics is no fleeting studio bender — it's the ripe...

The past couple of years have seen America marred by police brutality and the all-out circus that was the presidential race, but as KXNG Cro...

New York hip-hop luminary Kool Keith enlisted a dozen underground mainstays to show "cheesecake rappers" how the old school gets busy on his...

In his bid to become the crown prince of hip-hop's underground, Reks is stating his case with a daunting 35-track double album, The Greatest...

Roy Woods' debut Waking at Dawn shows flashes of maturity from the 20-year-old, but suffers from a soporific sonic palette and a reluctance...

Demrick is one of many MCs with East Coast roots to make their name in California. But as he recounts on Collect Call, his path from North P...

YG avoids the sophomore slump with Still Brazy by evoking the crown jewels of West Coast hip-hop royalty.   On the lead single "Twist my F...

His May arrest for year-old warrants hasn't stopped Kodak Black's Lil B.I.G. Pac mixtape from seeing the light of day. The warrants, whose c...

After signing to the Weeknd's XO Records and Jay-Z's Roc Nation, Ottawa's Belly is riding a steadily rising wave. His third album, Another D...

It's been six years since singer-songwriter Mike Posner released him debut album, 31 Minutes to Takeoff, and if his followup, At Night, Alon...

Illadelph rapper Freeway's latest offering, Free Will, features more of what heads fond of MC's Roc-A-Fella days are accustomed to: thuggin'...

If Toronto upstart Blake Carrington's F.A.I.L.U.R.E. imparts any message, it's that failure isn't just nothing to be ashamed of, but necessa...