Jon Bap's latest full-length album, Yesterday's Homily, is a sonic exploration of free jazz, jazz fusion, funk, and more, as Bap looks at the duality of life with a fearless optimism. "The album is ...

The post Eight Boom-Bap Classics Paul Wall and Termanology Think Every Music Fan Should Own appeared first on Consequence. Paul Wall is best known for emerging from the breakout Houston scene with his ...

Logic is consumed by his love for nostalgia and YSIV is his personal and myopic monument to a bygone era. Across 14 tracks, the Maryland rapper is obsessed with the idea of "boom-bap”—a phrase he uses ...

On this day in 1993, Blastmaster KRS-One stepped out on his own and released his first solo album, Return of the Boom Bap, marking a powerful new chapter in the legacy of Boogie Down Productions.

After teasing his fans with videos and brief previews of new music, Jaden Smith is getting ready to drop the follow-up to his 2019 album Erys. Named after his Cool Tape mixtape series, which started ...

Like most things craft, hip-hop maintains its originality in sustaining its sociocultural cradle — a Northwest sensibility, distinct from generic media. “You’ve to root off of something,” WildCraft ...

Blastmaster KRS 1 dropped his first solo album 28 years ago today. Sometimes the best way to do things is to do it yourself. This is the realization that KRS, the general of the Boogie Down ...