The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Ab-Soul, Ferg, and Cordae. The past few weeks have featured a glut of new hip-hop, so even though this week slows things down ...

Hip-hop’s original storyteller, Slick Rick has carried the narrative torch for over three decades. The best Slick Rick songs reveal how. Born on January 14, 1965, Richard Martin Lloyd Walters ...

What’s more, if you’re after crispness and definition, processing loops also has its limitations. Here we’re going to look at a hybrid approach to trip-hop beats that provides the best of both worlds.

Instead of sorting out nearly everything that released this week, we've narrowed it down to strictly the best of the week, saving you plenty of time. Expect to see selections from the established ...

Hip-hop may be associated more with brags and bling than goodwill and giving, but the best Christmas hip-hop and R&B songs are gifts that keep on giving. “Let it snow” might mean something ...