The Rap Report is The FADER’s column dedicated to highlights in the rap world, from megastar artists to the deep underground. I tend not to listen to a lot of new music when I’m away from home. I’m ...
The Rap Report is The FADER’s column dedicated to highlights in the rap world, from megastar artists to the deep underground. Less than four minutes into our interview about HiTech’s raucous new album ...
The first two months of 2016 have been dominated by something that in most years doesn’t show up until much later: star power. In January, Atlantic successfully parlayed Kevin Gates’ cultish, largely ...
Weather Report, the jazz fusion group co-founded by the brilliant Wayne Shorter, is integral to the rap subgenre known as jazz rap. Few musicians have left Earth with resumés that match Wayne ...
PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 29: Young Thug performs at Domaine National de Saint-Cloud on August 29, 2015 in Paris, France. (Photo by David Wolff - Patrick/Redferns) From here in Los Angeles, it feels like ...
A few months ago, fans of Los Angeles rap on Twitter were left agape by a post by a local blogger, who shared his thoughts on the city’s current crop of talent via a “rap report card” featuring grades ...
Some of battle rap’s nicest writers penned and voiced bars for LeBron, KD, Butler, Embiid and Jokić in the NBA superstars battle rap cypher. The worlds of Hip-Hop and basketball have collided in a new ...
No one man can have all this power. Kool Moe Dee’s 1990 Rap Report Card – an alphabetically graded list of 90s Hip Hop stars – resurfaced on social media earlier this month and goes viral. The report ...
With 2013 drawing to a close, we checked in with eight New York rap artists who contributed notable releases to the schedule and pressed them for their own take on how they felt the year in hip-hop ...