Ask 10 hip-hop fans of different ages what the greatest year in rap music was, and you’ll get 10 different answers. Music consumption is a deeply personal endeavor, shaped by individual taste and ...

You can often learn just as much—if not more—by examining the downtrodden periods of a genre as opposed to only looking at the highs. So, after we ranked the best years in rap history earlier this ...

An elegiac retelling of rap’s origins, Hip-Hop Is History also ends with a sense of hope. Buffy (Darren Robinson) of the Fat Boys in Chicago, 1985. This Juneteenth featured, among other festivities, a ...

Kendrick and Drake’s recent beef is merely one in a fabled line of feuds that have shaped the history of hip-hop as we know it. Whether revolutionary, zeitgeist-defining or just plain silly, rap beef ...

From the slums of Shaolin, Wu-Tang Clan strikes again! You can still catch “Wu-Tang: An American Saga” released on Hulu. The television series was created by The RZA, the brains of the Wu-Tang Clan, ...

This year is the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop. We’ve had numerous public celebrations, panels, television shows, podcasts, and articles marking the occasion. But Boston’s contributions to ...