Last night, BET aired its annual Hip-Hop Awards. The show featured performances from big names like Cardi B, YG, A$AP Rocky, Lil Pump, and Gucci Mane, among others. But as ever, the best reason to watch was the annual collection of Cyphers -- the random groups of big and small rappers doing whatever they could…

A while back, we, your Stereogum staff, made the decision to stop posting new music from the young Florida rap star Kodak Black. Kodak has been accused, multiple times, of abusing women. He's a talented rapper and an important figure in the new rap ecosystem, but it didn't seem like anything he could do would…

If you're buying tickets to a rap festival, you probably already know that things are not necessarily going to play out quite in the way you might've envisioned. This past weekend, for example, the massive all-rap festival Rolling Loud came to Miami, and there were last-minute changes. Not all of those changes were bad. Meek…

Gucci Mane has a message for high school kids around the nation: Don't be a fool, stay in school. The rapper did just that

Gucci Mane has been in prison since May. He isn’t really working on anything besides maybe “not being in prison anymore.” But whoever is in charge of Gucci’s music has been busy. Since he went away to prison, we’ve had a steady stream of Gucci releases, presumably made up of music he banked befor...