Perhaps as young men’s lives become more passive and alienated, being a spectator to violence and death provides a frisson of ...

Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song. ADVERTISEMENT It’s summer break 2001. You’re ten years old and at your grandparents’ house, watching TV, trying to savor the last ...

for dominance in a genre known at the time as “gangsta rap.” The motion alleges constitutional violations and lack of corroborating evidence against Davis. AP In interviews and a 2019 tell-all ...

Lupe Fiasco is stepping into academia to share his insights on rap! The artist, born Wasalu Muhammad Jaco, announced on Instagram that he will join Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute ...

By 1994, he was a controversial young rapper who had already left an indelible mark on the fledgling subgenre of gangsta rap and was about to undergo a trial for murder (he was acquitted).

The elephant in the room, the Kendrick Lamar and Drake feud, was a seismic event that reverberated throughout the year’s pop culture, leaving rap purists scrambling to dissect every haymaker ...

Long Beach’s Olympics ambassadeur. But Snoop Dogg the MC, the laconic voice who defined West Coast gangsta rap in the ’90s, never left us. On Friday, he’ll release “Missionary,” a much ...

Here is a recap of Billboard Boxscore's top 10 rap tours of 2024, featuring Nicki Minaj, Childish Gambino and more. By Eric Frankenberg Earlier this week, Billboard revealed its year-end Boxscore ...

But Kendrick wasn’t the only rapper who came through in 2024, even if all his press and outright dominance makes it feel that way. So here they are: the top 10 rap albums of 2024.

The barbaric murder of masked gangster rap star, Gaboro, 23, is the fourth time a musician has been ruthlessly killed in Sweden in recent years as the country faces being torn apart by gangland ...