| The Ruler Never Left: Jay-Z’s ‘The Blueprint’ Turns 20 | September 13, 2021 |
20 years later, Jay-Z's 'The Blueprint' has an enduring legacy as the album that made Jay’s endless, ambitious mythologizing a reality.
| A Hit is a Hit: A Definitive Guide to The Sopranos and Hip-Hop | December 21, 2020 |
Oumar Saleh documents how rap music has intersected with the epochal television series and vice versa.
| A Definitive Ranking of All the Original 5 Mic Albums in The Source | September 29, 2020 |
No stranger to insanely ambitious (or flat-out insane) projects, Abe Beame attempts to settle the debate over the greatest 5 mic album once and for all.
| A Year in the Life of Douglas Martin: 2017 Edition | February 6, 2018 |
Douglas Martin returns with his yearly recap.
| Roc Boys Will Be Boys: On Adulthood and JAY-Z’s ‘4:44’ | July 11, 2017 |
Israel Daramola takes a look at '4:44' and how it shows (and doesn't show) JAY-Z's personal growth.
Doc Zeus looks at extreme Capitalism in the age of Trump and Jay-Z's new record, '4:44.'
| The Ten Albums We’re Most Looking Forward to in 2017 | January 25, 2017 |
Will Hagle counts down the 10 albums we can't wait to hear in 2017.
| Rework the Angles: Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail | June 14, 2016 |
Zilla returns with a re-working of Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail.
| The Rap Up: Week of June 3rd | June 3, 2016 |
The Rap Up returns with new ones from Pusha and Hov, Gucci, Thugger, Jonwayne, and more.
| “Dope Beats To Step To”: Timbaland’s King Stays King | January 20, 2016 |
Dean Van Nguyen takes a look at the new Timbaland mixtape, trying to gleam a return to form by the legendary producer.
