Azalea recently accused of misappropriating black culture

Nas’s beyond-classic debut Illmatic turns 20 this year, and he’s celebrating by releasing a 20th-anniversary reissue and doing the album in full on tour. Last night, he appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s rebooted Tonight Show, performing the Illmatic track “One Love,” which Q-Tip produced, with Tip himse...

Meanwhile the UK dance duo were joined onstage last night by Mary J Blige    

The Native Tongues movement of the late ’80s and early ’90s was an exciting time for hip-hop, a new infusion of eccentric (and Afrocentric!) ideas that helped evolve rap toward the positive and the abstract. Now the Abstract himself, Q-Tip, is in the works to produce a TV show about the era with help from [...]

After old rap guys Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip reunited on the excellent new tracks “Thank You” and “Butch & Sundance,” with both of them sounding absolutely reinvigorated, expectations were high for their new mixtape The Abstract & The Dragon. As it turns out, the new tape is not an all-new f...