Nas Magic 2 (released July 21, 2023) Time and perspective tell beautiful stories. Imagine standing in the timbs of Nas at the turn of the millennium. …

So yeah …. 2023. In a year where we’re celebrating 50 years of hip-hop and patiently awaiting a revival of the glory days of R&B (a statement I’ve been making for nearly a decade now) there certainly isn’t a lot going on, is there? Industry veterans, highly-touted newcomers, hotly anticipated…

Janelle Monae The Age of Pleasure (released June 9, 2023) I think some of y’all missed the message. When Janelle Monae opened her new single, “Float” with the lines “no, I’m not the same,” it was easy to take that as face value. Twitter, planet Earth’s favorite thirst-trap app, lost…

Killer Mike Michael (released June 16, 2023) Unless you’re new around here — and if that’s the case, that sounds like a personal problem you need to correct immediately — you know we’ve been looking back at some of the greatest albums in hip-hop history in honor of the #HipHop50…

We shouted out the 50 best albums of 1990s We showed love to the 50 best of the 2000s Now, in celebration of 50 years of hip-hop, let’s celebrate the 2010s. And lord knows this will be my most divisive list to date. If you’ve been a frequent visitor to…

In celebration of 50 years of hip-hop, I recently recapped the 50 best albums of the 1990s — a defining year for the genre. I planned to show 2000s-era hip-hop the same love… … until I realized that I already ranked the 30 best albums of that decade about five…

Musiq Soulchild & Hit-Boy Victims and Villains (released March 10, 2023) If you ask me, Hit-Boy should change his name to Konami. I think he’s become rap & hip-hop’s most powerful cheat code. Just ask Nasty Nas. His partnership with Hit-Boy produced one of the most acclaimed comeback runs in…

I don’t know about y’all but celebrating De La Day on March 3 felt pretty bittersweet. On one hand, it was a day decades in the making — after years (and years and YEARS) of delays, De La Soul’s legendary catalog finally hit streaming services in full. And while an…

First things first — this list should have been WAY bigger than just 50 albums. I know many times we tend to romanticize the 90s (much to the chagrin of younger fans…) but, nostalgia aside, it was a truly transformative time for music. The 80s gave us Hip-Hop’s Golden Age…