THOUGHT PIECE

Forecasting the year to come and taking stock of what 2019 can tell us about the trends of tomorrow.

At long last, Joey Crack has decided to hang up his Yankee fitted, at least for now.

Few can go bar-for-bar with Griselda, Buffalo's tight-knit rap crew that is giving an old sound new flavor.

Kanye’s musical ear remains one-of-one, but sonic choices alone can’t save what is largely an erratic and uninspired affair.

IDK's "Is He Real?" is the latest project from a long line of self-described Kanye West disciples. Whether or not it lives up to the billing is up for debate.

A generation removed from Chief Keef, the stunning transformation of street rap has revealed something much more than just the next iteration of Chicago drill.

The video app has been downloaded over a billion times, and it's not hard to see why.

Making sense of the music that would have us shed a tear and let loose all at once.

There's much to be gleaned from the music of an artist whose breakout hit reads like the criminal charges he now faces.

“This is a story in which there is injustice in every crack and crevice.”

The Atlanta rapper is preparing to unleash a solo album that will hopefully peel back the layers of an untold story.

Uncertainty abounds for the platform's progeny.

The deceased Colombian drug kingpin continues to have a commanding presence in hip hop.

Cover art is more important than ever in 2018.

Can today's artists still sell out?

Should we listen to music against a dead artist’s wishes? Determining how to appropriately immortalize deceased artists is a tall order, and one of the hardest questions in 21st-century pop music.

The hip-hop community has long turned a blind eye to mental health, but the stigma is gradually beginning to unravel.

Why the hip-hop community worships Nas' "Illmatic" and how the album's classic status has shaped the direction of the genre

The famed jazz musician, Wynton Marsalis, had some choice words for hip hop in a recent podcast.