NAV Bad Habits

Published Mar 26, 2019

Fresh off of a very short-lived retirement, NAV followed up a surprise EP, Brown Boy, with his sophomore studio album, Bad Habits, executive...

Gunna Drip or Drown 2

Published Mar 01, 2019

Heading into 2019, Georgia rapper Gunna had established himself as one of the year's most anticipated and sought after — with the success of...

Clairmont The Second Do You Drive?

Published Feb 01, 2019

Clairmont The Second is becoming an ever-more important artist on the Toronto music scene. He's one of the only platinum acts who can claim...

Clairmont The Second Is Finally Making the Music He's Always Wanted to Make

Published Feb 01, 2019

On the week leading up to his new album Do You Drive?, Toronto rapper Clairmont The Second is, more than anything, excited for people to hea...

Just Blaze Discusses His First Beat, New Busta Rhymes and the Importance of Giving Back

Published Nov 21, 2018

When it comes to entry into the game, not may producers can claim a body of work as influential and commercially successful as Patterson, NJ...

Milestones & Motivation: An Uplifting Chat With Producer Illmind

Published Nov 20, 2018

When it comes to the world of music production, few are as commercially varied — and as forthcoming with inspiration —as Ramon Ibanga Jr., b...

Battle of the Beatmakers Crowns lucyclubhouse Its Youngest-Ever Winner

Published Nov 12, 2018

Producers from around the globe converged on Toronto from November 7 to 11 for the 13th annual Battle of the Beatmakers — a competition that...

EverythingOShauN Wants Success on His Own Terms, and in His Home Country, on 'Everything Over Everything Else'

Published Nov 06, 2018

Regardless of where your musical tastes lie, you're likely to find an artist to satisfy your needs in the booming local Toronto scene. Thank...

EverythingOShauN Everything Over Everything Else

Published Nov 05, 2018

Though it's been popularly defined globally thanks to a handful of artists that have managed to blaze south of the border, the Toronto scene...

Ghostface Killah The Lost Tapes

Published Oct 09, 2018

The Lost Tapes, the 13th studio album by Ghostface Killah (one of the Wu-Tang Clan's most revered rhymers), is a release that — considering...

Logic YSIV

Published Oct 03, 2018

Rapper Logic — though he's created one of the most admirably powerful brands in hip-hop over the past decade — remains oddly polarizing. His...

Eminem Kamikaze

Published Sep 03, 2018

Eight months after the release of Revival, and without any clever billboards or marketing ploys, Eminem released Kamikaze — a conflicted pie...

Young Thug Slime Language

Published Aug 21, 2018

Young Thug told Hypebeast back in February that he had decided not to release any music in 2018, as he wanted to "act deaf for a year," as a...

Jazz Cartier Fleurever

Published Jul 26, 2018

Jazz Cartier is a name that has been ringing bells since 2015's Marauding in Paradise. Poised for success like a lot of other homegrown acts...

Jazz Cartier's Major Label Debut 'Fleurever' Is About to Change the Canadian Game

Published Jul 26, 2018

Though a debut album is usually the first introduction a mainstream listener has to a new artist, it in no way means an artist is new. This...

Classified Tomorrow Could Be...

Published Jul 05, 2018

Nova Scotian multi-platinum rapper Classified — now pushing 40 — is back at it with a new EP. His eighth official release, Tomorrow Could Be...

Westside Gunn Takes One Last Independent Swing on 'Supreme Blientele' Before Heading to the Big Leagues

Published Jun 26, 2018

When it comes to independent success in contemporary hip-hop, not many teams have been able to win without pandering to mainstream pressure...

Westside Gunn Supreme Blientele

Published Jun 22, 2018

How do you break down an album when almost every line is quotable? In many ways, rapper Westside Gunn and his Griselda roster are the most c...

The Carters Everything Is Love

Published Jun 19, 2018

Giving Nas less than 24 hours to bask in the glory of his Kanye West-produced Nasir release, JAY-Z and wife Beyoncé — collectively known as...

Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts

Published Jun 12, 2018

One week removed from the release of ye, the eighth solo studio album by Kanye West, the (sometimes) misunderstood genius made good on relea...