hip-hop

From Kendrick Lamar to formerly young Jeezy, more and more big-name rappers are willing to explicitly discuss their faith on the record

Kendrick Lamar’s new album lands in an evolving genre where rappers are actively exploring their sensitive side

Critics who call Iggy Azalea a white poser reveal hip hop’s strange conservatism

Inspired by 50 Cent, young rappers on the Yucatán Peninsula are rediscovering their Mayan roots—and saving a language

Relax, writes Martin Patriquin, French is hardly threatened by these bilingual rappers from Montreal

He raps badly, has no story or street cred. How did Rick Ross end up at the top?

From the archives: As another white rapper marches on at the 2015 Grammys, a look at the 2014 outrage over Macklemore

Emma Teitel explains why it’s time for the rapper who has everything to let go

Rap Genius founder Mahbod Moghadam gives the works of Drake and Jay Z the Northrop Frye treatment

They’re Batman and the Joker—no, Felix and Oscar