The 2010s saw the rise of hip-hop/rap to levels of popularity that it has never seen before with its evolution into the wide array of sounds that are present today. The variety of sounds in today’s ...

Philly’s Leaf Ward is the type of rapper we would have fawned over in my New York grade schools, all visceral storytelling, wordplay, and a State Property-like intensity. His latest project, They ...

But early on into the Shaolin's run-up on rap, he was also heavy on the pop culture references, like his callback to the Rolling Stones' "Get Off of My Cloud" in the opening bars to his self-titled ...