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 ...

Southern rap legend Big K.R.I.T. is back. His new album, Dedicated to Cadalee Biarritz Vol. 1, officially dropped on December 5, 2025. Fans no longer have to wait — the full project is available to ...

On this day in 1997, Master P released his sixth studio album Ghetto D, a landmark project that not only shifted the sound of Southern rap but also stamped No Limit Records as a dominant force in hip ...

Hip-hop has always been music’s mirror to the social and political climate in a reflection that crosses global boundaries, and a new generation of artists has rewritten the definition of rap to make ...

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Yeah, it stirred the Yankees to the World Series championship, but was there a more boring album this year than Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3? Perhaps it was a geographic thing; with a few exceptions like ...

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 ...