Rakim

The 2022 Blue Note Jazz Festival runs throughout June in venues all over NYC and also features performances by Charles Lloyd, Al Di Meola, Chief Adjuah (fka Christian Scott Adjuah), Bilal, and more

The lineup also includes J Period Live Mixtape (ft. Black Thought, Rick Ross & Benny the Butcher), Tierra Whack, Freddie Gibbs, Mickey Guyton, Yebba, Chief Keef, Robert Glasper & Bilal, DJ Jazzy Jeff & Rakim, Protoje, and more...

Friday's NYC-area shows include Samia, Pissed Jeans, Rakim, and more

Sunday's NYC-area show options include Yo La Tengo, Caribou, Jeff Rosenstock, Bouncing Souls and Face to Face, Rakim, and more

It's “A Night of HIp Hop Royalty“ at Queens' Knockdown Center in November, featuring Big Daddy Kane and Slick Rick (both of whom are touring this fall), Rakim and Kid Capri...

You can now watch the first two seasons of Chris Rock's 1997 - 2000 HBO series, which featured such guests as Prince, D'Angelo, Maxwell, Tracy Morgan, Erykah Badu, Puff Daddy, Conan O'Brien, Wyclef Jean, Missy Elliot, LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes and more.

plus Bartees Strange, Knocked Loose, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Portugal. The Man, Marco Benevento, and more livestreams you can watch this week.

The soundtrack also features Nas, Rapsody, Smino, Saba, A$AP Rocky, Pooh Shiesty, Polo G, H.E.R., and more...

The Shaka King-directed, Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield-starring film about the assassination of Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton will feature a Jay-Z/Nipsey Hussle collab, as well as songs by Smino, Saba, Rapsody, Pooh Shiesty, and more...

”This is hard because music attracts me first before the rhyme,” Questlove wrote in response to author/jouranlist Shea Serrano posing the question on Twitter. ”But some rappers caught me first...”