From block parties to Billboard charts, hip hop has never been one thing. This guide breaks down the major styles from old school pioneers and G-Funk grooves to modern-day drill, trap, and grime. A ...

Run It Back is a retrospective review of a classic or game-changing hip-hop releases whose style and sound still resonate with listeners in the modern, streaming-driven era. Hip-hop has always been a ...

Lil Baby, Migros figure prominently in NYT writer Joe Coscarelli’s account. Atlanta rap artist T.I. dropped the album “Trap Muzik” nearly 20 years ago, lending credence to his claim that he coined the ...

The Roland-TR808 is the backbone of a lot of trap rap and EDM, and now the two genres are beginning to intersect. Credit: Joe Holmes In the mid-aughts a wave of steely-eyed southern rappers introduced ...

An oral language rich in history from Peru is having a moment, with artists using it in hip hop, rap, trap, and pop music. It's not Spanish, and it's not Latin. Quechua is a language all its own.

Since he was co-signed back in 2016 by rap mogul 50 Cent, Messiah has helped prove that the future of hip-hop is en Español. Touted as one of the pioneers of the contemporary sounds of Latin trap… By ...

When Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny — whom you’ve most likely heard on Cardi B’s ubiquitous hit song “I like it” (which hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart this summer), walked into a nail salon in ...