‘Rap saved my life’: A hazy conversation with MIKE and Earl Sweatshirt
“I mean the elephant in the room is that me and MIKE are pretty similar,” Earl Sweatshirt tells Dazed over video call. MIKE, who is sitting next to him, immediately…
Prettifun Wants to Make Rap Fun Again
Michael-Raymond Javier Taylor, better known as Prettifun, was still stocking bananas at his local Food Lion when his beats started taking off online. He’d clock out of late shifts in…
20 Things Rap Fans Think About Hip-Hop (But Won’t Admit)
Hip-hop is in a complicated place right now. It’s not the dominant force it once was, but it remains the engine of popular music, with flashier, more global genres borrowing…
50 Unreleased Rap Albums Every Fan Wants to Hear
Is it possible that some of the greatest hip-hop albums have never left the studio? Fans of the culture celebrate classics like Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, Nas’ Illmatic and Ghostface…
The 50 Best Rap Videos of the 1990s, Ranked
The music video began to reach its full potential in the 1990s. With new technology emerging and a decade of familiarity with the format in the bank, expressing a song’s…
The Corniest Rap Beefs of All Time: 6ix9ine, Trippie Redd…
Rap beefs have provided us with some of the most memorable, entertaining moments in music history. And feuds between rappers have resulted in a long list of incredible songs, from…