The Let's Rap About It Podcast—Maino, Jim Jones, Fabolous and Dave East—are taking aim at 50 Cent on a new freestyle released on Christmas Day. On Thursday (Dec. 25), the quartet put out a new track ...

Every year, we’re told that hip-hop is in crisis. But if you ask us, it feels like there’s too much heat to keep up with. What’s lost on the chart-watchers lamenting rap’s mainstream lull is that the ...

The former H. Rap Brown, shown in this July 1990 photo, was a 1960s civil rights revolutionary who once exhorted blacks to arm themselves because violence is "as American as cherry pie." TAMI CHAPPELL ...

The delights of the action movie continue to thrill audiences around the world, often transcending linguistic barriers with their sparring dialogue and universal themes of heroism, vengeance and ...

At the end of the 20th century, hip-hop was booming, but the mood was dour. Two of the greatest rappers of all time—2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G.—had recently been violently killed. Artists were ...

As you might be able to tell, I’ve long thought that most popular emo rap was bad, but the one tape for which I still have a soft spot is Lil Peep’s Crybaby. Released in 2016, Peep, like Gates, ...

Hip-hop has officially exited the upper echelon of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time in more than three decades. The top 40 of the iconic chart currently contains zero rap songs, marking ...

At first, the rise of the 20-year-old rapper known as ian seems like a familiar story: Inspired by Atlanta rap music, he started self-releasing music on SoundCloud, went viral and landed a deal with ...

It’s a sunny January afternoon in Juliaca, a city near the banks of Lake Titicaca in the high plains of southern Peru. Thousands of Indigenous Quechuan and Aymara people have gathered in the town’s ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A local tree trimmer with a lengthy rap sheet is behind bars once again, accused of defrauding at least two Duval residents. Local jeweler Brian Christoff was working at his ...

Elena Neely is the visionary founder of Blessons for Living and an award-winning author whose works, including Victory Verbs: 10 Verbs That Lead to a Victorious Life and the Blessons for Living series ...