To hear some tell it, Vlad, AK, and Adam22 are the holy trinity of gutter media. Rap fans know the criticism, and much of it checks: these three built careers trafficking off the seedier corners of ...

Today, we get to hear what happens when two of the all-time great rap duos join forces. We’ll never get to hear what might’ve happened if Mobb Deep and Clipse had teamed up in the studio and made an ...

REVOLT looks back at 15 rap songs that other artists passed on — whether they didn’t like the beat or missed the moment. Read ...

Last month, we launched the Pitchfork Rap Readers’ Poll, in which we asked you to rank your favorite rap albums of all time. Thousands of you did. Below, find those results, and compare them to our ...

“Birds Don’t Sing” is the emotional standout of Clipse’s comeback album Let God Sort Em Out, but their first album in 15 ...

Hip-hop is in a complicated place right now. It’s not the dominant force it once was, but it remains the engine of popular music, with flashier, more global genres borrowing its strategies, sounds, ...