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The 2025 Grammy winners list

From Chappell Roan to Beyoncé, here's who's going home with something to celebrate after music's biggest night

Salon · Feb 3, 2025

Chappell, chaps, Brat or rap spats: what will – and should – win at the 2025 Grammys?

It’s tough to call the quality-stacked top categories, featuring Academy darlings such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift alongside pop’s new tyros

The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2025

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 · Dec 12, 2024

"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 · May 2, 2024

‘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

The Guardian - UK · May 22, 2023

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 · Apr 10, 2023

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

The Guardian - US · Jul 7, 2022