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Make the Case: Denzel Washington Deserves Best Actor for ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’
The two-time Academy Award winner reinvented Shakespeare’s tragic antihero for Joel Coen’s vision of the story. Why isn’t his revelatory performance getting more love?
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Dollars to Donuts: The 40 Best J Dilla Songs of All Time, Ranked
From the Pharcyde to Slum Village to the unreleased beat tapes, we dive deep into the catalog of one of the best producers to ever touch an MPC
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The Remarkable Clarity of Earl Sweatshirt’s ‘SICK!’
The onetime Odd Future rapper’s new album ditches the muddied mixes and disaffected shrugs of his most recent output in favor of something still oblique, but sharper and more expressive
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Devil and the Details: The Undying Influence of Three 6 Mafia
No one was more important to unlocking the past decade of rap than a legendary Memphis group that broke up at the beginning of it
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What I Learned From Playing Golf With Kenny G
The famed saxophonist approaches his beloved game the only way he knows how: with a dedication to craft and a focus on mastering all the little things
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The Complete History of the Kings and Queens of New York Rap
In honor of Ringer Films’ new documentary ‘DMX: Don’t Try to Understand,’ we’re tracing the lineage of the crown of hip-hop’s mecca
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The Champ Is Still Here: The Greatness of Jadakiss, the Gravel-Voiced King of N.Y.
Last week’s Verzuz between the Lox and Dipset crystalized what’s been true for two decades: On a bar-for-bar basis, Kiss remains virtually peerless
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Looking for the Message in Nas’s ‘It Was Written’
Twenty-five years after it was widely panned at the time of its release, the Queensbridge MC’s second album is hailed as a classic. But what did the discourse at the time get right—and what did it miss?
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The Jay-Z Song Draft
Charles and Wosny Lambre are joined by Paul Thompson to discuss, debate, and draft the best Jay-Z songs in honor of the 25th anniversary of ‘Reasonable Doubt’
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The Improbable Empire: Master P’s ‘Ice Cream Man’ and the Birth of a Southern Rap Dynasty
The No Limit CEO’s first major work turns 25