Hip-Hop Has Had a Rough Year. Is This Really Its Great White Hope?
2023 saw rap’s longest drought in decades. Is Jack Harlow the man to save it? The biggest story in rap this year was all about the past. Hip-hop’s 50th anniversary—timed to a DJ Kool Herc rec-room party in the South Bronx in August 1973, a somewhat arbitrary but reasonable musical marker—was a fine excuse to [...] Read more