“I always say the East Coast and West Coast are the slices of bread, and Southern rap is the meat, because most of us have roots from the South,” said J Prince, one of the six honorees at VH1’s 2010 ...

As playlisting has become more and more popular over the last decade, it’s reasonable to ask: Do full-length rap projects still matter? To me, they do. Sure, there are standalone songs I play all the ...

After a harrowing 2007 — a year that started with the arrest of leading mix-tape maker DJ Drama — hip-hop mix tapes played it cool in 2008. Collections co-signed by top-level talent were scarce, ...