Kendrick Lamar adds to his collection of Billboard chart records not once, but twice this week as his latest studio album GNX ...

A History of Country-Rap in 29 Songs. Share full article. From left, Kid Rock, Kool Moe Dee and Lil Uzi Vert, three artists who have made songs that blur the boundaries between rap and country.

The Beach Boys' founding member never seemed to encounter a genre, instrument or movement he didn’t want to incorporate into his soundscape. That’s why it’s equally surprising and totally believable ...

T he history of rap music, all things considered, doesn't go back too far. The genre came out of New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and it was about a decade before it got its footing.

World Cafe celebrates Black History Month with a special on the birth of rap, in which rapper Kurtis Blow, DJ Grand Wizard Theodore, and museum curator Jim Fricke help host David Dye explore the ...

An elegiac retelling of rap’s origins, Hip-Hop Is History also ends with a sense of hope. Buffy (Darren Robinson) of the Fat Boys in Chicago, 1985. This Juneteenth featured, among other ...

Rap pioneer Grandmaster Flash goes deep the history of hip-hop, his Quick Mix technique, the Bronx and more ...

Hip-hop legend Nas reflects on the 50-year history of rap music, how successful his career has been, his recent creative freedom and more. Nas Going into the Garden, to do my own show was like ...

Flo Milli is 23, and strikingly — for a member of a generation that seems to live in the permanent now — she has a real reverence and affection for the history of rap music.