Tag: hip-hop

BY JOLT Staff · Oct 7 2026 · 1 min read

Peanut Butter Wolf traces 30 years of Stones Throw on new podcast episode

The label founder walks through the imprint's run from backpacker hip-hop to Adult Swim staple, three days before the Stones Throw 30 festival.

BY JOLT Staff · Oct 2 2026 · 1 min read

The Koreatown Oddity drops fourth album 'Purdy' via Stones Throw

Dominique Purdy returns four years after 'ISTHISFORREAL?' with 15 tracks, including a song about beefing sauce brands.

BY JOLT Staff · Oct 2 2026 · 1 min read

Public Enemy's Apocalypse 91 gets a 35-year second look

An anniversary essay by Angus Batey argues the group's fourth album deserved the attention their second and third usually take.

BY JOLT Staff · Sep 26 2026 · 1 min read

Quavo reveals QRÖMELIFE tracklist, Pharrell on every beat

Fourteen tracks, Tyler, The Creator, Justin Timberlake and Future in the room. Out October 2 on Quality Control and UMG.

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Danny Brown maps four-city Atrocity Exhibition 10th anniversary tour

The 2016 album gets a vinyl and CD reissue with unreleased instrumentals, and a run from Los Angeles to Austin.

BY JOLT Staff · Sep 22 2026 · 1 min read

BY JOLT Staff · Sep 12 2026 · 1 min read

Drake's Fear of Missing Out is a film, teaser confirms

The teased project gets a premiere date and a trailer that calls it a "not so short film directed and scored by the family."

BY JOLT Staff · Sep 9 2026 · 1 min read

Che and Nettspend share first collaboration, 'KickAss (Pull Up Pls)'

The two young rage stars finally link up on a corrosive, high-energy single.

BY JOLT Staff · Sep 6 2026 · 1 min read

Yeat takes shots at Travis Scott on new diss track 'ON NOTHING'

After his verse was cut from Slime Language 3, Yeat returns with 'ON NOTHING', aimed at La Flame.

BY JOLT Staff · Sep 5 2026 · 1 min read

Kanye West returns to Chicago for first hometown shows since 2021

Two nights at Soldier Field, with guest lists spanning his career.

BY JOLT Staff · Sep 4 2026 · 1 min read

2 Chainz, Cash Cobain, Young Nudy drop slow-jam single "Reign"

A lush, sampled beat from Statik Selektah links Atlanta with New York's new wave.

BY JOLT Staff · Sep 3 2026 · 1 min read

Cyst drop debut album ᲘᲘ

Iglooghost and daisy* team up for an irony-drenched album of early-2000s weirdo hip-hop and IDM.

BY JOLT Staff · Sep 1 2026 · 1 min read

Tupac Shakur murder: Keffe D convicted, sentencing set for October

A Las Vegas jury found Duane 'Keffe D' Davis guilty of arranging the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur after less than three hours of deliberation.

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Tyler, the Creator headlines first of two All Points East shows

Turnstile, Vince Staples, and fakemink support the headliner at Victoria Park.

BY JOLT Staff · Aug 30 2026 · 1 min read

BY JOLT Staff · Aug 30 2026 · 1 min read

Young Thug drops Slime Language 3 with Future, Travis Scott, and more

The YSL crew's third compilation lands split into two sides and fronted by a long guest list.

BY JOLT Staff · Aug 29 2026 · 1 min read

The Roots' Game Theory, 20 years on, gets a reassessment

A retrospective on the Def Jam debut that nearly sank the band, and a rumoured return.

BY JOLT Staff · Aug 28 2026 · 1 min read

Shabaam Sahdeeq on Rawkus-era roots, painting, and his new album

In a Bandcamp Daily interview, the Brooklyn MC talks graffiti, late-night radio, and his full-circle return with 'Outside the Lines.'