What if your favorite rapper wasn’t just dominating playlists but also saving the world — or taking it over — with real comic book powers? Hip Hop always operated like its own cinematic universe: ...

Two new albums from artists floating around in that sphere, Don Toliver and LUCKI, exist along a spectrum preoccupied more with rap as texture than as text. They are operating toward different ends: ...

A pair of California rappers have been named to this year’s XXL Freshman Class. The hip-hop and rap-oriented outlet has been publishing their Freshman Class list – which honors 10 to 12 up-and-coming ...