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Hip-hop

June 2024

  • Brother Marquis of 2 Live Crew performing in Texas in 2016.

    Rapper Brother Marquis, member of 2 Live Crew, dies aged 58

    Musician earned platinum-selling success with group who overcame obscenity and copyright charges, and coined famous 99 Problems chorus line
  • Ghostface Killah performing with Wu-Tang Clan in London, June 2023.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah

    As the esteemed rapper releases a new album and publishes memoir Rise of a Killah, he’ll be taking on your questions
  • Kevin Barry.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Kevin Barry’s cultural highlights

    The Irish writer on Limerick’s hip-hop scene, the ghostly magic of the hawthorn, and escaping to the Italian Alps on YouTube

May 2024

  • Questlove, in NYC 2024

    ‘Rapper’s Delight planted a seed for the rest of my life’: Questlove on hoarding, capturing hip-hop history and the Kendrick-Drake beef

  • Danny Brown, on stage in a high-collar leather-looking overcoat and wearing sunglasses, shouts into a microphone while holding his left hand, with painted fingernails, in the air in front of spotlights

    Danny Brown review – rap icon delivers each bar with purpose and poise

  • Party on … Beastie Boys in 1987.

    Ranked
    Rap-rock beasts and drive-by eggings: Beastie Boys’ 20 greatest tracks – ranked!

  • Tim Levinson and Kenny Sabir from Elefant Traks

    ‘When things dry up, we can’t just call daddy’: Elefant Traks, the DIY label that changed Australian music

  • The funniest things on the internet
    Cult Shotta: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

  • Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs admits he beat ex-girlfriend Cassie: ‘I take full responsibility’

  • Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss track debuts at number one in the US

  • From Biggie to Nicki: the most spectacular hip-hop jewelry – in pictures

  • ‘I bet Drake heard it and laughed’: BBL Drizzy is the real winner of the Drake-Kendrick feud

  • Drake v Kendrick Lamar’s rap beef has turned very ugly – who is benefiting from such a spectacle?

    Nels Abbey

  • Man arrested for attempted break-in at Drake’s Toronto mansion

  • Drake and Kendrick Lamar don’t get that women’s pain isn’t a punchline

    Tayo Bero

  • ‘Blood is on your hands, Biden’: US rapper Macklemore gives support to Palestine and campus protests

  • Drake denies allegations by Kendrick Lamar of underage sex and harbouring secret child

  • Boy Blue: Cycles review – a constantly shifting hip-hop high

  • ‘I was sad in a way I never knew possible’: Yaya Bey on grief, poverty and using music as therapy

  • Kamasi Washington: Fearless Movement review – the sax star dials up the tempos

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