Director Aristotle on the art of making music videos
VIDEO - Growing up, music video director Aristotle Torres didn’t have dreams to become one of hip-hop culture’s premier filmmakers. The Bronx native believed he’d be an attorney...
theGrio's top 10 most relevant rappers
SLIDESHOW - For every mainstream artist name dropping Molly in every rap track, they’re artists that are still trying to push the culture forward with detailed lyricism that the right amount of ears aren’t hearing...
Is hip-hop finally over molly?
theGRIO REPORT - Over the past few months, molly has become the drug of choice to name drop in hip hop and Kendrick Lamar has had enough...
The top 5 rap lyrics of the week
RAP GENIUS - This week, Common comes out to pla-ay, Kendrick watches classics in the back of the tour bus, and Jon Connor goes for the superhero blockbuster...
BET awards nominations announced
theGRIO REPORT - Artists Kendrick Lamar and Tamar Braxton announced the nominees for this year’s annual BET Awards earlier today...
Chris Brown collaborating with Aaliyah
theGRIO REPORT - During a press conference for the BET Awards Chris Brown revealed that he is releasing a new song featuring never before heard vocals from Aaliyah...
The top 5 rap lyrics of the week
RAP GENIUS - The announcement of XXL's 2013 Freshmen list this week (thankfully not actually all men this time) set the hip-hop blogosphere alight...
Is mainstream hip-hop a threat to our children?
OPINION - Sometimes I think rappers are deliberately trying to get kids killed out here...
The top 5 rap lyrics of the week
RAP GENIUS - As the RG camp recovers from an exhausting and successful SxSW, we somehow stopped sneezing and coughing long enough to bring you the best in this week's music...
Is hip-hop bad for black America?
theGRIO REPORT - Kendrick Lamar. Nicki Minaj. Childish Gambino. Chief Keef. From the profound to the profane, these rap artists represent the scale of hip hop’s status quo, inheriting the reign of one of America’s most authentically black art-forms, for better or for worse...
