Large Professor

Saturday's NYC-area shows include Wilco, Big Thief, Lyricist Lounge 30th Anniversary Celebration, The Zombies, Tim Heidecker, Lee Fields, and more.

The four-show, four-burroughs "It's Time for Hip Hop in NYC" series -- part of the celebratory Homecoming Week in NYC -- wrapped up at Forest Hills Stadium on Friday night (8/20)...

Remy Ma and Papoose, DJ EFN, Doug E Fresh, Dave East, Kid N Play, Sugarhill Gang and many more have been added to the massive livestreamed hip hop festival which starts today (4/23) at 6 PM.

Exciting rap shows happen in and around NYC all the time, but we don't get a chance to dedicate posts to all of them. In an effort to remedy that, here's a roundup of some recently-announced shows in the area.

Main Source, the veteran hip hop crew who counted Large Professor as a member and were responsible for releasing Nas' first-recorded verse ("Live at the BBQ"), reissued their 1991 debut Breaking Atoms earlier this year and reunited for their first show in over a decade. They've now added another show...

Also: Margaret Glaspy, George Clinton, Main Source, KRS-One, Slick Rick, Robert Glasper, Denzel Curry, DJ Premier, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Capone-N-Noreaga, GZA, Bilal, and so much more.

Desiigner, whose "Panda" dominated last year, just dropped a new single, "Outlet." He also announced The Outlet Tour, which hits NYC on May 15 at Playstation Theater. Tickets for that show are on AmEx presale now and they go on sale to the general public on Friday (2/10) a...

Hip hop vets Main Source, who counted legendary producer Large Professor as a member and helped launch Nas' career with his verse on "Live at the BBQ" (Nas' first recorded verse), are back.

New York rapper and former Roots member Rahzel has announced a hometown show happening July 28 at Brooklyn Bowl. He'll be joined by a pretty impressive list of guests, including Pete Rock, Large Professor (who both did beats for Illmatic, among many other things of course), and the Rock Steady Crew's DJ JS1...

Ghostface Killah is having quite the prolific year. He already released a collaborative album with BADBADNOTGOOD, and this Friday (7/10) he releases a collaborative album with Adrian Younge, Twelve Reasons to Die......