Erykah Badu didn’t play “Tyrone” at her 2018 show at San Francisco’s Warfield, but she did spoil the punchline. One of the ...

As we prepare to enter 2026, Okayplayer wraps up our 2025 with a list of the 25 songs that defined the year — a soundtrack of ...

Technically, Up My Standards is a mixtape, but it sounds more like one long radio freestyle. The only moments where Philly’s Shadstackzz isn’t rapping at full force are when the beats switch from one ...

We are on this chessboard Earth, we attempt our moves, but at times it seems as if the great hand of a disinterested giant ...

The Game doesn't want to hear your Top 5 West Coast rapper list or Mt. Rushmore picks -- if he's not in front of the lineup.

Spotify Wrapped has arrived with plenty of new bells and whistles. Here's how to find your stats and what's new this year.

We sat down with Marc Hazan, Spotify’s Senior Vice President of Marketing & Partnerships, to get the scoop on this year’s ...

Continuing with our end-of-year coverage, following our Top 25 of 2025, Okayplayer shares our top artists of the year. From chart-topping releases to sold-out world tours, pristine album rollouts to ...

Jane Remover. They released her opus Revengeseekerz, which landed them on our lists of the best albums and tracks of the year. They also dropped Ghostholding, an LP from their Venturing alter-ego.

One of the most intriguing storylines of the 2025 college football season is that we could be headed toward one of the ...

This year, Kehlani turned 30 after spending more than a decade flying — and at times flailing — in the public eye as one of R ...

Sometimes you don’t have enough tracks for an album, but you want to put more music out into the world than a single. The EP ...