Hey, some good news! Freddie Gibbs is one of our greatest rappers. The Alchemist is one of our greatest producers. Both of them do amazing work when they can team up with someone else for a full album. And now the two of them have made an album together. We won't have to wait long…

Conway The Machine is maybe the straight-up hardest rapper in Griselda, the surging Buffalo rap crew currently resurrecting the bloodthirsty spirit of late-'90s street rap. The Alchemist is the veteran rap producer who played a role in shaping the bloodthirsty spirit of late-'90s street-rap. In recent years, Alchemist has evolved into a thoughtf...

If you ever get a chance to hang out in a room with two or more rap producers, do that immediately. Do not hesitate. It's amazing. They clown each other relentlessly, and then they get into arcane production talk that sounds like a secret language, and then they gossip shamelessly about the rappers they're working…

Less than 30 seconds into his new album, the Detroit rapper Boldy James murmurs the kind of line that can rattle around in your head all day: "My friends came and went, but most of them was murder victims/ Dead before 20, or caught a frame and had to serve a sentence." There's an implacably…

The Alchemist and Schoolboy Q have teamed up for a new track, "W.Y.G.D.T.N.S.," the latest installment in the producer's sporadic Craft Singles series. The longtime friends have collaborated in the past, and their new song finds them both reflecting on the fan pressure to constantly come out with new material. The unwieldy acronym of its&#82...