Kool Moe Dee

Ad-Rock Hated "Faggots" and Other Beastie Boys Revelations Gleaned From Our Archives

Since October of 1955, when Norman Mailer and co. founded The Village Voice as a weekly paper for bros of the leftist pinko persuasion, we've done our dutiful best to preserve every word ever printed in our pages, tucking them away in our vast archival editorial library (pictured above). This summer ... More >>

Rapt.fm: Like Chatroulette Fueled by Hip-Hop, With Significantly Fewer Dicks

RaptFM: Like Chatroulette, But Fueled by Hip-Hop and with Significantly Fewer Dicks

You enter the room and they're already there. Some of the names you recognize: Randa the Rhyma (45 wins), Gig@ntic (48 wins), and Novice Raps (53 wins). You've checked the boards obsessively, but you've only ever been here before anonymously, as a guest. This is your first appearance in competition. ... More >>

Top Ten Rap Battles in History

To the casual observer battle rap might seem like an anachronism, until you realize that it's bigger than ever. Leagues like URL and King of the Dot have produced some of the most talked about events in hip-hop -- with the controversies to boot. (And the parodies.) Battling has gone from a niche i ... More >>

Young Guru Ushers in the Era of the Engineer, Prefers De La to Tribe

You know Young Guru as the super-engineer knob-twiddler behind hits from Jay-Z, Rick Ross and Drake, but last week he steeped out from behind the boards to deliver a lecture at N.Y.U.'s Clive Davis School of Recorded Music as part of his Era of the Engineer tour. In tandem with Grammy U, the session ... More >>

An A$AP Rocky Cra$h Cour$e

This week marks the release of Harlem MC A$AP Rocky's major label debut Long.Live.A$AP. One of the most anticipated hip-hop releases of the year, the album marks the culmination of three years of some of the most buzzed about and consistent output in rap today. For those of you late to the A$AP Part ... More >>

HIT THE TURBO BASS

Bringin' back the boombox

The Real Sugar Hill Records Story: In-House Drummer Keith Le Blanc on the Myths Surrounding Rap's First Label

​"I don't think the true Sugar Hill Records story has ever been told because there's so much skull-duggery attached to it," says Keith Le Blanc, the one-time in-house drummer for Sugar Hill Records. The pioneering New York label, which brought hip-hop to the world's ears in 1979 with the Sugar ... More >>

Status Ain't Hood Interviews Joe Budden

Last Night: The VH1 Hip Hop Honors

Bee Kind, Rewind

The exuberant wild style of Busy Bee still resonates three decades later

LL Cool J, Please Break Up

The Fall of a Perfect Dive

With Siberia closing for good, we restrain the urge to vomit one last glorious time

Thursday 8/3

Christina Aguilera Saves Hip-Hop

A Very Good Year

Metaphysical Refinitions Overstood at Last!

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Live and Erect

Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action

Livin’ for the City

Consumer Guide

Dust in the Wind