Tag: rap

• The 100 Best Rap Albums of All Time | Pitchfork

  November 1, 2025

  We rank the most essential and influential albums of this quintessentially American art form. https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-rap-albums-all-time/ more ›

• Clipse Talk Love, Hate, and What Rap’s Been Missing | GQ

  June 5, 2025

  After more than fifteen years apart, the brothers Thornton, better known as Malice and Pusha T, are back together, with a new Pharrell Williams-produced album that ranks with their most… more ›

• How the murder of a Swedish rapper shocked a nation and put police on the back foot

  December 5, 2021

  They began heading for the shopping mall exit when they saw the police. One of the four gang members, a local rapper called Lelo whose music videos venerate handguns and… more ›

• Jay-Z’s NFT Feud Spotlights Legal Peril in Hot Investment Trend

  September 19, 2021

  As a young rapper, Jay-Z once teamed up with Damon Dash to sell CDs of his music out of a car in the Brooklyn projects. Today, the co-founders of Roc-A-Fella… more ›

• Earl Sweatshirt Does Not Exist

  July 26, 2020

  On a warm November day, Earl Sweatshirt is holed up in his cozy Los Angeles duplex. His head is enveloped in a hood he never takes off, with two baby… more ›

• Roc Marciano, the Man Who Would Be King

  April 9, 2019

  Roc Marciano’s biggest goal isn’t to achieve the riches that mainstream success brings, or to go platinum. He just really wants to score films. https://www.complex.com/music/2019/04/roc-marciano-profile more ›

• Changing the Face (and Sound) of Rap

  January 5, 2019

  “TIK TOK,” a zippy and salacious celebration of late nights and mornings-after by a new artist named Ke$ha, has spent the last few weeks zooming toward the top of the… more ›

• Anderson .Paak

  November 18, 2018

  Anderson .Paak With its languid pace and sunstruck mix of hedonism and tragedy, Los Angeles has always had a powerful and enduring relationship with funk music. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/anderson-paak-oxnard/ more ›

• Nicki Minaj, Always in Control

  October 22, 2017

  Nicki Minaj, Always in Control » This story is one of the seven covers of T Magazine’s Greats issue, on newsstands Oct. 22. THE DAY I WAIT in the hotel… more ›

• Wu Tang Presents… Wu-Massacre by Method Man,…

  May 31, 2016

  Wu Tang Presents… Wu-Massacre by Method Man, Ghostface Killah & Raekwon  Wu-Massacre is a collaboration studio album by American rappers and Wu-Tang Clan members Method Man, Ghostface Killah and Raekwon,… more ›