Last month, we launched the Pitchfork Rap Readers’ Poll, in which we asked you to rank your favorite rap albums of all time. Thousands of you did. Below, find those results, and compare them to our ...

After being spoiled by a monstrous three-peat from Future, a lyrical face-off between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and scintillating releases from Doechii and Tyler, the Creator, the rap world feasted in ...

If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...

We should address the elephant in the room: hip-hop did not have a strong year on the charts. In fact, rap music had its worst showing in years. Back in October, it made headlines when—for the first ...