After a year dominated by one major event—Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar—it’s easy to forget that the sounds pushing rap music forward often come from the fringes. That’s why our annual Rappers to Watch ...
In 2016, as "mumble rap" was being used as a slur for the first time, and SoundCloud had become a bolt-hole offering asylum to young hip-hop castoffs, a handful of the movement's defining figures were ...