Up considers the most notable singles of the past week. Today, Harley Geffner reviews new work from Lucki, Jackboy, and more.

Video Music Box co-founder Ralph McDaniels will be honored by the Paid In Full Foundation this weekend in Las Vegas.

I’m guilty of using the metaphor in a single way. As a critic, I’ve sometimes referred to works as being xeroxes of other, more original ones. This is not complicated or cryptic—biting, copying, track ...

The musical exchange between California and Texas was first the story of The Great Migration; later, briefly, it was because everyone wanted to sound like 2Pac. The beat on “Smile” seems to lie ...

Every morning, I wake up in an air-conditioned room. I eat exotic fruits from far-flung regions whether they’re in season or not. As I drive myself to work cheaply and freely, I swipe through more or ...

There’s barely anything holding up the beat on YS and Lefty Gunplay’s “Still Love Me.” A few lonely xylophone notes ping around in the background as Lefty, the Baldwin Park rapper who broke nationally ...

Though the record is called the hermit, shemar and Sasco have a distinctly pro-social approach to their work. The duo—the former a rapper-producer whose serpentine flows are vehicles for deeply ...

Oakland producer and rapper OVRKAST. sits down with Jeff Weiss and Mz.Free on The Truth Hurts podcast for a wide-ranging conversation that breaks down what it was actually like to land beats on ...

On this episode of The Truth Hurts, Jeff Weiss, Rosecrans Vic, and Mz Free sit down with West LA rapper Big Sad 1900 for a career-spanning conversation that gets much deeper than simply music. He ...

It's been two years since Blxst dropped a full-length project. Now, he's back with 'Labor of Love,' his new album fully produced by himself. The LA rapper, singer, songwriter and producer joins ...