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Hip-Hop, Ranked
The 101 Best Kendrick Lamar Songs, Ranked
The Ringer Staff • 1 hr 34 min read
The 30 Best Years Rappers Have Ever Had, Ranked
Justin Sayles and 2 more • 56 min read
The Greatest Diss Tracks of All Time, Ranked
The Ringer Staff • 1 hr 43 min read
Heavy Rotation: All the New Stuff
Noteworthy Reads
- Don’t Like Knocked Loose? That’s Your Cross to Bear.
- Mannequin Pussy Isn’t Shying Away From the Rage
- How Composer Gordy Haab Became the John Williams Whisperer
- The Gamification of Pop Music
- The (Slightly Abridged) Yacht Rock Dictionary
- So, We Are Really Sending Katy Perry to Space
- ‘Balloonerism’ and the Unfinished Mac Miller Experiment
- The Old Man and the Keys: The Improvised Legacy of Garth Hudson
- I’ll Admit It: LiAngelo Ball’s “Tweaker” Is a Certified Banger
- About to Break: The Creation of Linkin Park’s “One Step Closer”
Britpop on Bandsplain
Spotlight
- Rap Beefs Reviewed
- Music’s Newest Stars
- Ringer Films Presents ‘Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary’
60 Songs That Explain the ’90s: Start Here

The (Mostly) True Story of Vanilla Ice, Hip-Hop, and the American Dream
The (Mostly) True Story of Vanilla Ice, Hip-Hop, and the American Dream
From the archives, one of our favorite long reads, about the rise and fall of ’90s pop music’s most infamous villainFrom the Vault: Our Favorite Oral Histories
From the Archives Long Reads We Pulled From the Crates

Live Forever: Oasis, ‘Definitely Maybe,’ and the Definitely Misunderstood Legacy of Britpop
Live Forever: Oasis, ‘Definitely Maybe,’ and the Definitely Misunderstood Legacy of Britpop
Before the blokes go back on tour, revisit their big break out—and how the ’90s U.K. music scene came to define a generation of argy-bargyCollections
‘GNX,’ Beef, and the Year of Kendrick Lamar
Podcasts

A Requiem for the Dead
A Requiem for the Dead
From the archive: A farewell to the Dead and Co. and a relic of boomer culture that found a way to regenerate, time and time againThe Ringer’s Music Podcasts