How a rap battle at a party led to The Game meeting Kanye West and eventually making one of the best West Coast rap songs of ...

Let’s talk about weed and rap. We know Hip Hop and cannabis have been intertwined for decades, but over the last 10 years, the relationship between hip hop and weed has evolved into a full-fledged ...

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Rap is often treated as background music for workouts, commutes, or parties. In a classroom context, it can look like “just entertainment.” Yet rap lyrics are built on the same foundations students ...

This one was worth the wait. Check out our highlights from 'Before the World Blows.' Although in recent times Drake’s cultural currency has been called into question, there’s no denying that he is one ...

A new documentary, Rap Trap: Hip-Hop on Trial, premiered on Hulu last week, which centers on the arrest and indictment of rappers Young Thug (Jeffery Williams) and Gunna (Sergio Kitchens) in 2022. The ...

Rap has always been more than music. It emerged as a voice of Black and Latino communities who were tired of economic and social discrimination. Soon, it transformed into a disruptive force in music.

Over the steady beat of the cymbals, rap duo Lunatic find their pace and announce themselves on their debut track "Le Crime Paie": "Wesh, wesh, écoute fils." That was in 1996. Nearly three decades ...

Russian rapper Egor Krid performs during a concert in St Petersburg. Peter Kovalev/TASS/ZUMA In retrospect, rap in 1990s Russia was truly free. How so? Look around: the bright post-Soviet future of ...

It was the height of quarantine, and Issa Rae wanted — in Bay Area rapper Saweetie’s proverbial words — “Something fun, something for the summertime. Something for the girls to get ready and party to.