Last month, we launched the Pitchfork Rap Readers’ Poll, in which we asked you to rank your favorite rap albums of all time. Thousands of you did. Below, find those results, and compare them to our ...

If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...

In the fall of 1991, jazz legend Miles Davis died of pneumonia, respiratory failure, and a stroke. At the time of his death, he was deep into a new project with Brooklyn-based producer Easy Mo Bee, ...

Back when hip-hop was seeping out of New York City and becoming the soundtrack of urban American, red states preferred the rootsy melodies of country music. In those years, the idea of combining the ...

New Orleans and Louisiana have left an indelible mark on rap music as the home state of some of the genre's biggest stars and most iconic record labels. Five albums by Louisiana artists were selected ...

Three years after the tragic loss of Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, better known as AKA, the Supa Mega’s music continues to dominate streaming platforms, proving his indelible mark on the global hip-hop scene ...