How Do You Make a Weed Empire? Sell It Like Streetwear.
Berner, the San Francisco rapper, has built a legal-weed empire out of his black-market past — and blurred the lines between the two.
Too Short’s Long (and Very Raunchy) Life in Rap
The West Coast rapper is an unsung pioneer of some of the genre’s most central elements.
What Happened When 15 of Twitter’s Top Celebrities Joined Threads
We examined the daily activity of Ellen DeGeneres, Wiz Khalifa, Selena Gomez and others among Twitter’s most-followed to deduce if Threads has staying power.
Mixtape Sites Like DatPiff Propelled Rap. Can They Be Preserved?
Websites offering up free — and not always legal — music flourished in the gap between the fall of the CD era and the rise of streaming. Keeping those archives intact is proving difficult.
‘The Blog Era’ Podcast Resurrects Rap Media History
The new podcast from the brothers Eric and Jeff Rosenthal explores what made hip-hop blogs matter — and why they faded away.
Amber Rose Is Not Who You Think She Is
As the public figure resurrects her SlutWalk (and releases a rap single), she’s looking to cast off the labels of her past.