Recency bias is real. As 2021 races to a close and music obsessives rush to build their personal year-end lists, those tallies will likely be skewed toward releases that have hit the web since the ...

The post 15 Best Hip-Hop Mixtapes of All Time appeared first on Consequence. So much of hip-hop history was recorded on humble mixtapes, from early concerts captured on cassettes to the digital ...

There was hardly a better time to be an aspiring rapper coming out of Chicago than 2012. That year, label scouts began flocking to the city like never before, allured by Chief Keef’s thunderous ...

Fans can’t stop swimming in Mac Miller posthumous releases. Since the rapper died, in 2018, his label released “Circles” in 2020, followed by a few singles he featured on, like “I Believed It” by Dvsn ...

Websites offering up free — and not always legal — music flourished in the gap between the fall of the CD era and the rise of streaming. Keeping those archives intact is proving difficult. By Brian ...