Hip-hop has been cranking out living-it-up bangers for decades, but the average historian is (or should be) aware that dark thoughts aren’t a foreign concept for the genre. After all, Grandmaster ...

A flute-playing rapper doesn't seem like he'd be the first guy to get in some beef, so it makes sense André 3000 wasn't egging on the rap battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake earlier this year. The ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: ...