When Fenix Flexin and Tyga worked together in a studio this summer, Tyga realized they had independently landed on a similar Eighties sound. By then, Fenix, the Los Angeles rapper and Shoreline Mafia ...

Thanks to great new singles from Beyoncé and Drake, it’s become the summer of hip hop with house beats. Larger-than-life figures like those two have the power to dominate the conversation and steer ...

Pitchfork writer Alphonse Pierre’s rap column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, Instagram freestyles, memes, weird tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. The first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Platinum albums and gold singles. Several acts at the 2026 RiverBeat Music Festival arrived with those achievements. But only one ...

Have you ever been totally faded in the club? Not falling over, falling asleep drunk – glassy-eyed and slow-responsive, nodding along listlessly to the beat, more fatigued than fried. You can reach ...

Rap and hip-hop music originated in the early 1970s as a minimalist sound that was contradictory to the formulaic and heavily orchestrated music coming from dance clubs and house parties. Since its ...

It’s a simple editing trick, of course — in the original video, filmed in 2016 at a wedding in Israel, a live band is playing a Hasidic tune. But the near-perfect synchronization of bass and bochurs ...

Everyone knows that one of the most important aspects of a party is having great music that can get people on the dance floor. Hip-hop's inception came from house parties hosted in the Bronx in ...

Global Cypher Day 2026 will unite hip-hop communities across five countries and three continents to promote climate awareness through street culture.

A lot of this year’s biggest names are, in fact, all up for the same accolade. The Best Hip-Hop category lines up Cardi B, Don Toliver, Drake, Megan Thee Stallion and Tyler, the Creator.