CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The rise of streaming and its massive effect on record sales has pretty much done away with the art of the mixtape. That's a shame considering just how much the platform changed hip ...

On “Ditto,” the last track on My Face Hurts From Smiling, a surprising rap mixtape from a certain four-time Grammy winner, the star in question declares, “It’s a Lizzo summerrrrrrr.” The tape — which ...

Discover Blogly is The FADER’s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries. A reliable source of rap innovations and deep talents, the DMV has birthed a new and vivid take on drill in recent ...

It can be tough getting heard when you re not in a marquee Hip-Hop city. If you re not from New York or LA, or more recently, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, or Houston, it s just that much harder to break ...

Lizzo returns to her rap roots with “My Face Hurts From Smiling” a new mixtape that features SZA and Doja Cat. She’s ready to reintroduce herself. My Face Hurts From Smiling is fun, fearless and full ...

Doechii — who already has three wide-ranging hits under her belt in the 2000s R&B coded “What It Is (Block Boy),” “Yucky Blucky Fruitcake,” which goes from buzzy hip-hop to boom bap, and the housey ...

Hip-Hop’s Biggest First-Week Sales for Projects in 2025 Chance The Rapper, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Kevin Gates and More – New Hip-Hop Projects Chance The Rapper, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Kevin ...

As a feminist and a hip-hop fan, I always experience discomfort participating in the genre of music I love. It’s not just the textbook misogyny and homophobia that attack my queer womanhood, although ...

Freddie Gibbs has as much popularity as he ever has these days, but when he dropped "B.A.N.ned," featured on his Cold Day in Hell mixtape in 2011, he was still on the come up. His storytelling ...

Consider diving back into some oft-forgotten albums and mining for gold. Here are 20 great rap songs featured on 20 terrible rap albums. In a world where streaming dominates the music industry, bad ...

For hip-hop fans, the mixtape download service Datpiff was a necessity as much as a tool. At a time where the dynamics of the game were changing in the corporate world – Jay-Z literally became an ...

Fans are stirring with excitement as RAP SH!T, Issa Rae’s television series on Max, gears up to return for its second season. On Nov. 9, viewers will continue to follow the fictional lives and musical ...