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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...

Aaliyah's classic sophomore album -- made largely with Timbaland and Missy Elliott -- is finally on streaming services after being kept off them for years. More Aaliyah albums will be added in the coming weeks...

NYC's series of free ”It's Time for Hip Hop in NYC” shows began on Monday at Orchard Beach in The Bronx with Busy Bee, Furious 5 featuring Grandmaster Melle Mel and Scorpio, Kid Capri, Nice & Smooth, Kool Moe Dee, and more.

Here's how to get tickets to the Central Park ”mega-concert,” plus the four hip-hop shows leading up to it in Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island.

The lineup for ”It's Time for Hip Hop in NYC,” a series of four free shows leading up to the Central Park ”mega concert” happening in August, is here.

The $80 million, 52,000-square-foot Universal Hip Hop Museum is hoping to open in 2024.

”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...”

This week's Notable Releases include Laura Jane Grace's surprise mostly-acoustic album, Westside Gunn's third album of 2020, Jonsi's first solo album in ten years, and more...

It also features the entire Griselda crew, Busta Rhymes, Alchemist, Just Blaze, and more...