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To close 2024, we’re focusing on Mutant Academy, a Richmond rap collective that had a strong calendar year and is looking to push even further after the release of Keep Holly Alive, a November project that the crew views as its first official group album. The nine-man collective features rappers …

There’s pacing yourself, and then there’s being Kurious, the New York rapper who’s put out five albums in 30 years. On Oct. 18, he’ll reveal his latest act by dropping an album called Majician. Crafted over three years from 2016 to 2019, it’s a testament to his decades-long friendship with …

I n Norfolk, Virginia, a medium-size city teeming with unassuming single-­family homes and townhouses, Pusha T’s contemporary pad looks airlifted from the Hollywood Hills. With a waterfront view, large glass windows inviting in natural light, and state-of-the-art interior design, it’s as if the architects asked him for inspiration and the …

Back in May, Kendrick Lamar was crowned the heavyweight champion of his long-brewing war of words with Drake. But even after releasing a barrage of diss tracks— “Euphoria,” “Meet the Grahams,” and summer anthem “Not Like Us” among them — Lamar wasn’t done yet. He celebrated his historic rap feud …

W elcome to the first installment of Rolling Stone’s new monthly indie–rap column ‘No Filler’ Rumors of hip-hop’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. All hip-hop fans need to do is push past the Top 40 bubble and find the under-the- radar artists who are making the rap world so interesting. …

When Drake and Kendrick Lamar decided to go at each other, we knew that there was a chance for low blows; we just didn’t know we’d end up subterranean. The four tracks they exchanged on May 3 and 4 — Kendrick’s “Meet the Grahams” and “Not Like Us,” as well …

We know Kendrick Lamar and Drake will throw more shots, levy more seedy allegations, and might even drop more all-out diss songs from here. But the bulk of the war has been fought, and the crown goes to Compton. In hindsight, the way Drake poked the bear with Instagram Stories …

ElGrandeToto wasn’t meant to be a rapper. He always knew he’d be famous, he says, but figured he’d be a dancer, maybe an actor. “If I wanted to be in the fucking NBA, I could have been in the NBA,” he says with certainty. “I’m too ambitious. I love dreaming, …

On the night of April 13, after the apparent leak of his diss track “Push Ups (Drop & Give Me Fifty),” Drake posted a screenshot from the movie Kill Bill on his Instagram Story. It was the film’s iconic fight scene, during which Uma Thurman’s character takes on a room …

Almost immediately after its founding in 1955, the Village Voice became the most raucous, irreverent and important alternative newspaper in America. At one point the Voice was the most read weekly in the country, serving as Andy Warhol put it “the entire liberal thinking world.” In her excellent new book …