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Music nostalgia tends to move in 20-year cycles, so early 2000s rap is unsurprisingly leaving a mark on today's new rap music. Here are 25 albums from that era that hold up especially well today...

After releasing their first album in 9 years in 2019, Phonte and Rapper Big Pooh have more reunion tour dates coming up this year...

The reunited Phonte and Rapper Big Pooh made the new album with help from Black Milk, Questlove, and more...

Here's all the new hip hop we posted on BV this week, including from Blu & Exile, Logic & Eminem, slowthai, Blueface, Tink, Styles P, and more.

Listen to new songs by Holly Herndon, Calexico and Iron & Wine, Noel Gallagher, Cate Le Bon, Falls of Rauros, Abbath, The Sonder Bombs, and more.

'The New Negroes,' which Open Mike Eagle co-created with comedian Baron Vaughn, will also feature MF Doom, Hannibal Buress, Lizzo, Father, Phonte, Method Man, and Sammus in upcoming episodes.

From newcomers proving themselves, to veterans figuring out how to age gracefully; from expertly executed throwbacks, to thrilling innovation, here are the best rap albums of 2018.

Of all the ”jazz albums that hip hop fans would like,” the latest from Robert Glasper drummer Chris Dave is among the most accessible, as it's filled to the brim with guest rappers and R&B/soul singers.

As usual, it's a very diverse list with indie rock, hip hop, country, Latin trap jazz, classical, folk, R&B, metal, and more. It's also got that Doja Cat song ”Mooo!”

Durham, NC's Little Brother (Phonte, Big Pooh, and 9th Wonder) played their first show in a decade at hometown festival Art of Cool, and reportedly ”found out about the possibility to reunite just a few hours before the show.”