Angel Diaz is Billboard’s hip-hop editor where he covers daily hip-hop and R&B news in the form of interviews, lists, reviews, op-eds, news posts and videos. He’s been covering the genre and everything that revolves around it for more than 10 years, using his experience growing up in the New York City area during the ‘90s hip-hop boom as the basis for everything he covers. He started his career as an intern at The Source magazine where he worked his way up to becoming head of the street team and eventually made his way to Complex to help run their sports channel before becoming a staff writer. There he was able to lend his unique voice to other areas like pop culture, television, movies, food, music, style and sneakers while also helping produce Complex News video profiles, on-the-ground protest coverage and sit-down interviews that include the likes of former president Barack Obama when Angel was a producer for ‘360 with Speedy Mormon.’ He also worked on documentaries like the award-winning ‘Hometown Hero: The Legend of New York's Chopped Cheese’ with First We Feast and Horse Power: Hip-Hop's Impact on Polo Ralph Lauren, which was based on an article he wrote about the NYC-based crew the Lo-Lifes.