Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hip-hop legend Nas reflects on the 50-year history of rap music, how successful his career has been, his recent creative freedom, ...

(Interscope)Bowing out after six consecutive US No 1 albums, Cole references rap greats and even conjures a convo between Biggie and 2Pac – but the lens rarely strays from himself ...

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 festivities, a ...

Judson L. Jeffries is Professor of African American and African studies at Ohio State University and a regular contributor to the Columbus Dispatch. For reasons unknown to me, my 14-year-old son is ...

Rap music made headlines for losing its Billboard chart dominance, but it's being celebrated more than ever at the 2026 ...

First Rap Genius helped the Web understand rap. Then the startup set out to annotate everything, from literature and history to sports and film. Now with 40 million in new funding from Dan Gilbert and ...

Kendrick Lamar Earns Latest Grammy Win With Best Rap Album Kendrick Lamar is continuing a strong night at the 67th […] The ...

Kendrick Lamar has made history at the 2026 Grammys, breaking Jay-Z's record of 25 wins at the awards show ceremony.

The long-running debate over Hip-Hop and Rap continues to shape global music culture, yet many listeners still struggle to understand the true difference between the two. The world of music is often ...

When Nas said “hip-hop is dead,” this certainly isn’t what he meant. Since 1990, rap music has topped the music charts as arguably the most impactful genre in the world. But for the first time in ...