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All the new hip-hop music dropping this week

From REASON and Shordie Shordie to Latto, GloRilla, and Action Bronson, this week's hip-hop releases span major drops and ...
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20 great songs that mix hip hop & dance music not by Beyoncé or Drake

Thanks to great new singles from Beyoncé and Drake, it’s become the summer of hip hop with house beats. Larger-than-life figures like those two have the power to dominate the conversation and steer ...
The New York Times

Mixtape Sites Like DatPiff Propelled Rap. Can They Be Preserved?

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 ...
The New York Times

Mixtapes, T-Shirts and Even a Typeface Measure the Rise of Hip-Hop

New books collecting objects central to rap’s physical history demonstrate the importance of celebrating these relics before they vanish. Credit... Supported by By Jon Caramanica For the last year, ...