The 2026 Grammy Award nominations are in and the Best Rap Album category is stacked this year. On Friday (Nov. 7), The Recording Academy unveiled all the nominees for the next year’s annual awards ...

“The smooth criminal on beat breaks / Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes,” rapped Nas on his 1994 classic “N.Y. State of Mind.” Like other underground genres that hit their stride in the ...

If you grew up in the same era as me, you had your notifications on, waiting for the moment Hoop Mixtape, Yay Area’s Finest, or Ball is Life dropped a new highlight reel. These were not just videos; ...

Yesterday we kicked off the countdown with 50 of the best mixtapes released in 2010, and of course, all you readers were asking us why we were missing this artist or that mixtape. Well, the answer is ...