The year in rap featured gospel-tinged dispatches from Chicago ... of two legends of New York's Native Tongues posse. Here's the best albums and mixtapes from a year where MCs shouted down ...

Thus far, 2016 looks like the first year that the center of the rap universe might not be ... a Factory Records art-punk rarity and a gospel choir. The best Kanye performance is a spoken word ...

As a result, his best earlier work often pointed to lost ... Winston Cook-Wilson Chance the Rapper’s third mixtape was gospel rap for the noncommittal masses, warm with youthful optimism and ...

So much rap music comes out all the time ... Whether or not you think it’s the best MAVI album yet, it’s definitely the most musically varied and the most devastating. And there’s nothing ...

Gospel remains the secret sonic foundation upon which St. Louis has always staked its musical reputation. R&B, blues, rockabilly, country and even hip-hop and rap artists -- the original MCs were ...