It’s no secret that the world of rap music has endured more than its fair share of tragedy over the years. Like the psychedelic rockers in the late 60s or the grunge stars in the mid-90s, rap has lost ...

American artist Zander, an American 's PROJECT 2025 is a powerful six-track EP that takes you on a tightly woven 13-minute journey through the sociopolitical chaos of recent US life. In less than 14 ...

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...

Instead, they wanted to write songs that bridged chill jazz music with the burgeoning form of hip-hop. And they achieved that in spades thanks to this track, which hit No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 ...

We should address the elephant in the room: hip-hop did not have a strong year on the charts. In fact, rap music had its worst showing in years. Back in October, it made headlines when—for the first ...

I first decided to move to Paris on top of the water tower at my friend Alex’s apartment building in New York. It had been a dream of mine for two years, a romanticized idea that first got a hold of ...