As the internet and technology have grown in influence and ubiquity, so have opportunities and avenues for young artists to share their music with the world. With Soundcloud keeping the lights on, at ...

Rap music has been scrutinized for decades. There was controversy over rap when it came to the East Coast–West Coast rivalry, the interpretation of lyrics and censorship. Media groups are quick to ...

When Philadelphia rapper Lil Uzi Vert was 20 years old, he uploaded a few songs to SoundCloud, a free music-sharing platform. The tracks got a couple hundred plays, then a few thousand. Three years ...

Drill rap songs are number one with a bullet. And that’s terrifying to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, cops and victims of the genre’s sometimes trigger-happy rappers, who glorify killing in their ...

Years ago, a rap music fan described me as a "hip hop scold of the highest order." My sin against the music was calling out rap artists for their constant use of the "N-word," casually insulting women ...

Latin hip-hop found its footing in the bicoastal stomping grounds of the East and West Coasts where Spanglish-speaking communities were influenced and surrounded by urban rap and trap. Today that ...

Post Malone caused a minor firestorm with his comments that “nobody talks about real sh*t in rap,” and rightfully so; he made his bones in the music business being billed ostensibly as a rap artist ...

As district attorneys across the country have used rap lyrics to build criminal cases against artists with growing frequency since the early 2000s, state lawmakers are looking to implement a legal ...

A dependable playlist is an essential resource in the life of any music fan. A good playlist can reunite you with old favorites and put you on to new gems. Ideally, it’s created by someone who ...

In courtrooms across the country, judges and juries are being asked to contemplate rap music as criminal evidence. This growing trend warrants caution and begs many questions, the most obvious being: ...

Country music and hip-hop have long vacillated between looking to each other for inspiration and staring at each other warily. Here are 29 examples that run the gamut: Billboard chart-toppers and ...

For the first time ever, R&B/hip-hop has surpassed rock to become the biggest music genre in the U.S. in terms of total consumption, according to Nielsen Music's 2017 year-end report. Eight of the 10 ...