J. Cole walked the city's streets himself in his younger years.

J. Cole was raised in Fayetteville and graduated ... Cole was first offered a record deal by Jay-Z in 2008, after the New York rapper heard Cole’s song “Lights, Please." In 2011, after a ...

Billboard staffers are joined by DJ Drewski to debate who the best lyricist is among Nas, Jay-Z, and Biggie and more!

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In the years since then, the two have traded shots, called a brief truce to headline the Free Larry Hoover concert in Chicago ...

In today’s episode of ‘Billboard Unfiltered,’ Billboard staffers Kyle Denis, Damien Scott, Carl Lamarre and Trevor Anderson break down Drake tying with Taylor Swift & Jay-Z on the Billboard ...

Tyler, meanwhile, just hit the road in service of Chromakopia, the album he released last fall, and is already making history ...

As SXSW celebrates its 37th anniversary, it's safe to say that, for better or worse, it introduced Austin to the wider world, ...

Unlike some of his MC cohorts, like Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole, who modeled themselves after hip-hop greats Nas and Jay-Z, I think Drake is modeling himself after an even bigger celebrity ...

On Thursday (March 7), the Carolina rapper shared a Wiz Khalifa “Clouds” freestyle, saying that he “skated,” acknowledged the ...