Badmon Joey kicked off the year by releasing the new single "The Ruler's Back" on Jan. 1. On the song, the Brooklyn rapper drops a line that appears to reference the reverence the hip-hop scene on the ...

With his new album Wake Up Supa, dropping today, Inglewood rapper D Smoke drops by our Sound Check studios to challenge his musical taste — and our host Jeremy Hecht’s ability to guess his lifetime ...

Unlike its New York origin story, no one can really say exactly when hip-hop hit the West Coast. But when it did, Alonzo Williams was there. Known as the “godfather” of West Coast hip-hop, Williams ...