Hip-Hop

The streaming giant offers artists a lower rate in exchange for a bump in its recommendation algorithm

Buffeted by Nipsey Hussle’s death, he still had a No. 1 song and album in a year shortened by the pandemic

The emotions we carry with us in the voting booth have always been in the music

How a Faith Evans hook nearly a quarter-century old became my soundtrack for an unprecedented year

As Black men, we cannot continue to inflict this pain on the women who look like us

The star-studded soundtrack helped cement hip-hop’s place on Broadway

The four new postage stamps are dope, but long overdue

His album ‘Alfredo’ adds to one of hip-hop’s great gangsta rap careers

How martial arts flows throughout the work of the influential hip-hop group

OutKast, DMX, Janet Jackson, Lauryn Hill, Master P and ‘Vol. 2’ from Jay-Z made this one major year in music