Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay ...

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“Gangsta rap” songs like “Boyz ... inspired gangsta rap that drove hip-hop’s mainstream success cannibalized itself, taking the lives of the genre’s greatest practitioners in the process.

For hip-hop, this was expressed through the turntable manipulation pioneered by DJ Kool Herc in 1973, when he extended and looped breakbeats to energize crowds. House music’s innovators turned to the ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from EST Gee, Nardo Wick, and Will Smith.

In addition to that, you can check back every week for the latest and greatest tracks. You'll always have somewhere to turn to each week, being sure to find some songs you'll dig.