For folks who think that rapping is a lost art in the era of Autotuned harmonizing and viral country-rap tunes, 2019 was considered a “slow” year in hip-hop. Fortunately for those people, Uproxx is ...

Ah, 2019. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and everything in between. Some terrible things happened this year as well. The murder of Nipsey Hussle sent a long-lasting shockwave ...

If 2019 were a hip-hop album, it'd be about time to usher in the bonus tracks. That is to say, the year is coming to a close. So, there's no better time than to look back on the last 51 weeks and ...

It’s been another huge year for hip hop – coming out of 2018 as the No. 1 most streamed genre of music, we can only imagine the growth 2019 has brought. Thousands of new acts are emerging from ...

Madlib hasn't slept in three days. More than 20 years into his career, the veteran producer still gets so excited by making beats that he often finds himself staying up for days at a time, digging for ...

From detailed analyses of the Wu-Tang Clan's legacy to memoirs from legendary MCs, 2019 was a great year for books centered around hip-hop. Here are 15 great hip-hop books published this year. In the ...

In a year where rap's biggest stars (Kanye West excepted) took a break, a new class of stars, from Megan Thee Stallion to DaBaby to Roddy Ricch, emerged. These are the albums that defined the year in ...

Many have viewed 2019 as a slow year for hip-hop because a lot of the genre’s biggest, most trusted heavy-hitters didn’t release albums—or at least not good ones (looking at you, Kanye and Chance The ...