The N.W.A Flowchart

The comprehensive family tree of the world’s most dangerous group

Tupac: Divided Soul

A recorded phone call between the visionary icon and a reformed gangster takes me…

Ultimate Breaks & Beats: An Oral History

How one essential vinyl series transformed the sound of music…

The Last Words of Tupac Shakur

Eighteen years ago a rap superstar was gunned down in Las Vegas. For…

Check The Technique: The Story of A Tribe Called Quest’s “The Low End Theory”

Q-Tip and Phife Dawg…

How Cool C and Steady B Robbed a Bank, Killed a Cop and Lost Their Souls

Philly rap legends Schoolly D…

The Old People’s Guide to DJ Khaled

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The Bitch in You: Revisiting Ice Cube and Common’s Vicious 90s Rap Battle

Before they were big screen…

The Infiltration of Black Rap (1981–86)

Black entrepreneurs — the earliest purveyors of recorded rap…

“Rockit” Revisited: How Herbie Hancock Crafted a Hip-Hop Classic

In 1983, a jazz heavyweight’s take…