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The 10 best hip-hop albums of 2024

From Los Angeles to London, Belfast to Tampa, the hip-hop world has thrown up some of 2024's most thrilling, imaginative and essential releases

Louder

The 2025 Grammy nominations are here and they've broken records

Marie Claire

Grammy awards 2025: list of nominees

Beyoncé leads with 11 nominations while Charli xcx, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone follow

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Partial list of nominees for the 2025 Grammy Awards

The nominations for the 2025 Grammy Awards have been announced, and Beyoncé leads the way

The Independent UK

10 of the best instrumental test tracks to give your hi-fi a vocal-free workout

Our pick of the best instrumental tracks to test out the talents of your hi-fi

What Hi-Fi?

"He transformed a piece of samba-flecked elevator music into one of the hardest hip-hop tracks of all time": 10 genius moments in hip-hop sampling history, featuring J Dilla, DJ Premier and more

We spin the record back on ten hip-hop tracks that show samplists at the peak of their powers

MusicRadar

‘It was fun until it wasn’t’: hip-hop A&R Dante Ross on De La Soul, ODB – and punchups with P Diddy

Hailed as the genre’s Forrest Gump for his time with artists from Busta Rhymes to Santana, today Ross contends that streaming, sampling and materialism have changed the genre beyond recognition

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Dorothy Ashby was the pioneer harpist who opened up the instrument to Black musicians like me

A contemporary of Alice Coltrane’s, Ashby mixed genres and broke down musical barriers. Now I am proud to be bringing some of her unreleased music to audiences for the first time

The Guardian - UK

From Biggie to Kendrick: super-producer Pete Rock on hip-hop’s golden ages

The musician with the Midas touch has sold 25m albums – but he’s still fighting for the recognition he’s due

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