June signifies summer, the release of some great music and the halfway point of the year. With six months already in the books, it's a time to reflect on what hip-hop has given us so far. Since 2016 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The immediate and impressive success of the Hamilton mixtape is ...

It's been quite the year for Lin-Manuel Miranda, the mastermind behind the Tony-winning Hamilton. He recently worked on Disney's latest animated film, Moana, and on Dec. 2 he released his ...

We are constantly being bombarded with new music and the ability to stream it on different platforms. Although a mixtape would normally be considered a separate body of work, and not usually fall into ...

A baseball player’s “walk-up music” is basically their personal soundtrack for the game. Though its origins are a little murky – some say it began when the Seattle Mariners played special songs for ...

From jazz-flavoured electronica through crushing anthems about mythical Norweigan trees and everything in between, these are the tracks that quickened our writers' pulses in 2016. When Dum Dum Girls’ ...

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While you were busy celebrating the holidays, NASA dropped the hottest mixtape of 2016. The Goddard Space Flight Center—where engineers and scientists who work on developing spacecrafts and other NASA ...

These four bars find Chance The Rapper, who is well on his way to becoming the first artist to ever have a Grammy nomination for a mixtape, brazenly take aim at those of his contemporaries who pride ...

In the past four years, a lot has changed for South Korean star Min Yoon-gi, known to millions of fans as the idol Suga of K-pop group BTS, and to followers of his rap career as the artist Agust D. In ...