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. Hip ...

At first many dismissed it as a fad when it exploded out of the Bronx after a dance party in the summer of 1973 where Dj Kool Herc used two turntables to switch back and forth between two records to ...

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2024 was a crazy year, but it was actually a really good year for Hip-Hop. Check out some of the best albums of the year, but we left space for you to tell us YOUR favorite! 2024 was an insane year ...

The music moves across multiple underground currents, fusing the grit of streetwise gutter rap with elements drawn from club ...

Editor’s Note: This story appears in the Winter 2023 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands now. Hip-hop has been the cornerstone of New York City's culture since its evolution in the Bronx in the 1970s.

Now on its third volume, the Beer Chamber Mixtape series is an official bottling of what goes down at the Commission.

As the 50th anniversary of hip-hop has been celebrated this year, many props have been paid to the pioneers who launched the Bronx-born culture in the ‘70s and ’80s. And rightly so. However, one ’90s ...

The Seattle hip-hop community lost one of its most influential early ambassadors last week: “Nasty” Nes Rodriguez died Saturday in Los Angeles, his widow, Llola Rodriguez, announced the following ...

The Memphis Rap Tours is a two and half hour guided moving mix tape that tells you about rap and hip-hop history and the ...