Music
The Limits of a Rapper's Comedy
Lunging for the most obvious jokes on Find the Beat, Blueface is desperate to be heard and understood.
rap
Music
Reflections of America in Rap
Four new rap releases reflect the divided state of the nation.
Music
Jpegmafia, Isolated in His Own Head
The more you listen to All My Heroes Are Cornballs, the more it teaches you how to listen.
Opinion
Hip-Hop Meets Art History
Cecilia Azcarate's art history tumblelog B4XVI pairs pictures of rappers with historical sculptures, paintings, and statues from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection.
Art
A Rap Epic for the Enigmatic Toynbee Tiles
Tiles embedded in busy intersections around North and South America have been appearing for two decades. No one knows who their creator is, but the Toynbee tiles, as they're called, have been the subject of a 2011 documentary and extensive archiving and mapping of their locations. Now the cryptic ph
News
Rappers in Tunisia Unionize
In response to the increasing prosecution of rappers in Tunisia as part of a broader crackdown on free expression by the country's Islamist government, rappers in the country have formed a union.