On Pacific Avenue in Venice, California, cars ambled down the street, bumpers nearly touching, inching their way through mid-day traffic. Halted in front of a decaying, low-slung apartment complex — a ...

J. Cole’s beloved Dreamville Festival is (sort of) coming to an end. Yesterday (April 5), the fifth and final installment (as festivalgoers know it) of the event took over Raleigh’s Dorothea Dix Park.

Dreamville Records is done watching the throne. With an undeniable momentum, J. Cole's clan is staking its claim as hip-hop's No. 1 collective. Sleep at your own peril. Editor’s Note: This story ...

Multi-GRAMMY Award-nominated Dreamville artist Bas and London-based duo The Hics have released “Norbit” featuring Ab-Soul, the second single from their upcoming collaborative album, Melanchronica, ...

Until a few years ago, Peter Bowditch, 70, a retired Royal Mail employee, didn't know what UK grime or drill music was. When his granddaughter would tune his car radio into stations rap and grime ...

Back in January, Dreamville, one of rap's most formidable artist-run labels, invited a broad selection of hip-hop artists and creators to Atlanta to create the label's third compilation album, Revenge ...

It all started one night in Lagos, Nigeria. The first time that Bas, the Queens-bred rapper signed to J. Cole’s Dreamville label, performed in front of an African audience was surreal. He’d ...

"These are real people that were just living their lives," says Bas, describing what the war in Sudan has deprived millions of people of. "They have hopes, dreams, families, lovers, careers, all these ...

The Queens-raised rapper’s fourth album is an inconsistent letdown, swaying between soul-baring R&B, cookie-cutter flexes, and empty posturing. His fourth album, We Only Talk About Real Shit When ...

Until a few years ago, Peter Bowditch, 70, a retired Royal Mail employee, didn't know what UK grime or drill music was. When his granddaughter would tune his car radio into stations rap and grime ...