Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Summer 2017 issue of of XXL Magazine, on stands now. The self-proclaimed “Prince of Toronto” was born Jaye Adams in The 6ix but lived all across ...

Ash Roth is back with his latest offering, Pabst & Jazz. As one of Hip Hop’s most slept on MC’s; Ash gives you 16 tracks to change your minds, enlisting the help ...

If you’re looking for homegrown musical success stories of 2012, you could do a lot worse than Robert Glasper. True, technically he lives in New York, where he became such an in-demand session player ...

A historic concert, 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop Mixtape Live, with 50 MCs from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s will take place on June 17, 2023, at Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Weather Report, the jazz fusion group co-founded by the brilliant Wayne Shorter, is integral to the rap subgenre known as jazz rap. Few musicians have left Earth with resumés that match Wayne ...

There’s a history-making concert coming to celebrate hip hop’s 50th birthday that will celebrate those who laid the foundation for the art form. Hip hop legends DJ Jazzy Jeff and Doug E Fresh have ...

“The smooth criminal on beat breaks / Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes,” rapped Nas on his 1994 classic “N.Y. State of Mind.” Like other underground genres that hit their stride in the ...

As promised, Toronto-bred rapper Jazz Cartier drops his debut mixtape, Marauding In Paradise. Featuring 16 tracks, including a trap-inspired heater and potential hit called “New Religion,” the project ...

It’s no secret that there are a lot of hip-hop documentaries. As the first genre to really break in an era where it could be widely documented in real time by camcorders, tape recorders, and ...

The emergence of significant DSPs like Spotify and Apple Music may have effectively ended the mixtape era. Before these streaming giants existed, music fans would head to sites like My Mixtapez, ...