"Patience is bitter, but the fruit is sweet," Jean-Jacques Rousseau once remarked, but often, the final reward isn't quite as sweet as hoped. Four years of delays, rumors and a variety of obscure hints...

In the hip hop world, there is a great divide. The “popular” and the “conscious.” It divides artists like Kendrick Lamar and Drake, Migos and Lupe Fiasco, SOBxRE and The Koreatown Oddity. The question...