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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

No label, no problem. Chicago artist, Chance The Rapper, claimed 2016 as his own. With the release of his third mixtape “Coloring Book” and the success of his Magnificent Coloring Day which was held ...

“Agust D,” the first mixtape of BTS’s Suga, has been chosen as an entry for FUSE TV’s “THE 20 BEST MIXTAPES OF 2016” list. The column began with, “In their three years together, the members of BTS ...

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 ...

Since The Suffers warmed David Letterman’s cold, cold heart in the final weeks of The Late Show, audiences across the country learned what Houstonians already knew: the Suffers are fantastic, and ...

Singer and former American Idol judge Paula Abdul performed with New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men and 98 Degrees in the fourth annual Mixtape Festival Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Hersheypark Stadium in ...

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 ...