Justin Ivey speaks to the Nashville artist about the balancing act of being a rapper and a father, his six-year hiatus from music, how working with Don Trip forces himself to a challenge and more.

Sun-Ui Yum writes a few words on the new collaboration between the two Tennessee titans.

The duo links up for a cut from Scotty's 'Smoking On My Own Strain.'

The internet's best rap column is back with new ones from Boogie, Drake, Curren$y, and more.

The Rap Up returns with a new megatrack from DJ Khaled, the trailer for a new Netflix show, and Cam & China guest appearances.

Torii MacAdams is tired of rappers comparing “Medusa” to all things sedimentary in their rhymes In Greek mythology, Gaia, the Earth’s mother, is the primordial deity who birthed the Titans, along with daughter Rhea, who begat the Olympian Gods. The Titans and Olympian Gods were combative shit-stirrers, mothered by the terra itself, considerable forces destined […]

Evan Nabavian only drives drunk on Wednesdays. On “The D.U.I. Song” Starlito narrates a night that begins with a few beers and ends wrapped around a telephone pole. He makes the Saved by the Bell reference before you can, and the characters, plot, and setting reveal a deft storyteller with a firm grasp of narrative. Starlito […]

If you can watch this video and don’t get shook, then I feel sorry for you. Shit like this is why I loved rap music in the first place. It reminds me of the first time I heard the Menace II Society soundtrack with “Str8 Up Menace,” “Trigga Gots No Heart,” and “Pocket Full of […]

Bodega rap from the dirty. Gates links up with the Cashville All Star for this cut from Stranger Than Fiction. Video looks like it was coated in the appropriate layer of decay, filth, and red solo cups. Croaking world-weary rap is always the best rap.

While admittedly leaning for most of these questions and answers, Starlito never lacked for words or charisma. He spoke like he raps: honest and effective. Sometimes clouded and complex, talking circular and not necessarily in succession of thought. We met in studios and a restaurant over the course of three days during A3C in Atlanta […]