We here at TheHipHopDemocrat are obviously a mostly Hip-Hop based website, but obviously cover a lot of R&B and Soul, as well as some other genres like Jazz, Funk and Reggae at times to name a few others. �...

Westcoast Long Beach emcee, KXNG CROOKED, is one of the most lyrical and greatest emcees of all-time, as well as one of the few more politically charged emcees left in Hip-Hop.  So it should be no surprise...

Westcoast emcee The Game has always been one of the most vivid at painting pictures of his environment growing up in Compton, California. Whether it be with his globally critically acclaimed debut album, Th...

In 2016, after years of grinding, R&B/Soul singer/songwriter BJ the Chicago Kid showed that patience is a virtue and that sometimes, timing is everything.  Whether it be the long time between his actua...

Singer/Rapper and multi-instrumentist, as well as musician Anderson .Paak entered 2016 riding the wave of his big break as one of the most significant contributors on Dr. Dre’s opus 2015 album, Compton: A...

Dreamy, surreal, lighter and sensuous with a heavenly like easy atmospheric blend of Dream Pop and R&B, which harkens back to the likes of such legendary artists as Sade, Janet Jackson, Erykah Badu and ...

Detroit emcee Royce Da 5’9” has always been known as a very ill lyricist and one of the best lyricists there is in Hip-Hop, not only now, but arguably of all-time. Though he is arguably at some of his l...

Brooklyn and Easstt New York native, Uncle Murda, started doing end of the year, year-in-review Rap Up's a few years ago in much the same way Virginia rapper Skillz has been doing for years.  So keeping the tr...

With only a couple days until Christmas, early this morning globally celebrated musician, Jon Batiste, premiered the new video for his jazz inspired record, God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman.  His very beautiful ren...

When a woman is fed up, there’s no going back and you know you was definitely wrong.  That’s definitely the case on Sonyae Elise’s appropriately titled new record, U Was Wrong.  A moody collaboratio...