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.

Bas is an artist who’s always looking to evolve, whether it’s his sound, his stage performance, or his lyrics. And when you hear about his upbringing, that need to constantly diversify makes sense. “I ...

Fans of Bas, one of the first rappers signed to J. Cole’s Dreamville Records, know that the Paris-born, Queens-bred rapper calls several places home. Prominent among these is Sudan, where he says his ...

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 ...

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 ...