It’s a cycle on repeat: A beloved rapper is murdered. Family, friends and fans react online. The case is investigated yet typically goes unsolved. The hip-hop community calls for change, but there ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — You can fight fire with fire, and a local mother is fighting rap violence with rap. Tonya Love’s 17-year-old died a decade ago after getting mixed up in rap gangs. She’s now ...

When local police named 22-year-old Robert E. Crimo III as “a person of interest” in the July 4 mass shootings in an affluent Chicago suburb, several news outlets described him in headlines as a ...

Mayor Eric Adams on Friday urged social media firms to ban “drill” rap videos that glorify and promote violence. The mayor’s plea came a day after he gave an emotional speech about the life and death ...

In 1988, Boogie Down Productions, Eric B. & Rakim, Doug E. Fresh, Kool Moe Dee, and Biz Markie were in the middle of the Dope Jam Tour when an altercation broke out during a stop at the Nassau ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has blamed the "drill" rap genre for contributing to the city's sharp uptick in violence this year - and late Tuesday night, he met with some of those rappers to talk ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — If you’re a Hip Hop fan, it may be difficult to still comprehend that one year ago today rap sensation Young Dolph was murdered in Memphis. The deadly shootings of high-profile rap ...

Saweetie made a recent appearance on the Bootleg Kev Podcast to share her thoughts about the state of current rap music. Specifically, the California native spoke about how she feels that women are ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla — Students at Gibbs High School in St. Petersburg are gaining national recognition for working on ways to stop violence in schools. The SAVE (Students Against Violence Everywhere) ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Ta-Nehisi Coates, blogging his way through the holidays just like us, finds that ...