Back in the day, the mixtape was the driving force behind hip-hop culture. But these days, fans don’t reach for C-90 cassettes when they want to spread the gospel – they make playlists. The biggest ...

For Billboard's #TBT Mixtape series, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros frontman Alex Ebert went deep on a playlist from his youth, dubbed "'91-'94 - Otherness: A Hip-Hop Renaissance," and opened up… ...

Apple Music is rebranding one of its biggest playlists, The A-List: Hip-Hop, as Rap Life, and will leverage Beats 1 to launch a new weekly show and daily segments around the playlist. By Micah ...

“The smooth criminal on beat breaks / Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes,” rapped Nas on his 1994 classic “N.Y. State of Mind.” Like other underground genres that hit their stride in the ...