Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest). The abstract Renaissance man. On his 20th birthday, ATCQ released debut album People’s Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm. Read our review of the essential final ATCQ LP: The post Happy Birthday... more info

Stereogum — It's been an eventful weekend for Clipse and Pharrell Williams. Pusha T's name showed up in a crisis intake report that surfaced in the latest Epstein files release, which is not what you want. On the same weekend, Clipse and their reunion album Let... more info

Stereogum — Only one month in, Pharrell has already had a momentous 2026. Not all of it has been great; he was sued by his former Neptunes production partner Chad Hugo. On the bright side, he debuted new music during his Louis Vuitton's FW26 show in Paris and wa... more info

Stereogum — It’s crazy to think that we get a new De La Soul album today. The great Long Island rap trio released their last LP, the crowd-funded and independent ...And The Anonymous Nobody, in 2016; it was their first in 18 years. In recent years, the group h... more info

Stereogum — At some point years after folks like Q-Tip, Pharrell, and André 3000 first embodied it, the term “genre-blending” became the most annoyingly vapid descriptor in my inbox. Gradually, a compound adjective that had once been reserved for people ... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy 55th birthday Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest). The abstract Renaissance man. On his 20th birthday, ATCQ released debut album People’s Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm. Read our review of the essential final ATCQ LP: The post Happy 55t... more info

Magnet Magazine — 20 years ago today, the Chemical Brothers released Push The Button. Q-Tip! Tim Burgess! Kele Okereke! The Magic Numbers! Read our review of the Chemical Brothers’ essential 2015 album: The post The Chemical Brothers Released “Push The Button” 2... more info

Stereogum — LL Cool J would like to remind the world that he’s a rap legend, not just a network-procedural star and occasional awards-show host. Next week, LL will release The FORCE , his first new album in 11 years. Fellow Queens rap legend Q-Tip serves a... more info

Stereogum — On Friday, LL Cool J announced his new album The FORCE, produced by A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip and featuring Nas, Eminem, Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Busta Rhymes, Saweetie, Snoop Dogg, and more. To celebrate, the rap icon went on Charlamagne Tha God�... more info

Stereogum — It’s been about 40 years since the 16-year-old Queens rap hyena LL Cool J released “I Need A Beat,” his classic debut single, on the newly founded label Def Jam Recordings. It’s been eight years since LL released his most recent single —... more info