Johnson is talking about his years of “dirt hustling,” when he sold stapled and Xeroxed copies of his zine Unsigned and Hella ...

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Raised by Sound Fest is set for Dec. 6 and will include three separate events at Crosstown Concourse in Memphis.

"IPNOS" (meaning "sleep" in Greek) is a beautifully haunting ballad that sleepwalks between euphoria and melancholy. The ...

"Across genres, 2025 proved that music’s future doesn’t lie in perfect replication or algorithmic ease. Instead, the artists ...

At the center of this unprecedented 2020s renaissance stood Hit-Boy, the masterful producer who helped spark a new golden run ...

Rapeter said he then began writing songs and became a "school rapper" at his school, but the rap music atmosphere was also just starting and was "impetuous", but he was still in the best era, when the ...

People enjoy hip-hop during the Governors Ball Music Festival at Citi Field in New York. Chinese rap music is becoming popular in the US as hip-hop music combines with Chinese content and culture.

Rap beefs have long been a part of hip-hop, from Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur to Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake. But one rapper who has long feuded with a fellow 2000s music star says he thinks they’re ...

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 ...

The Houston rapper ends rap's first period of being totally absent from the chart's top 40 since 1990. By Andrew Unterberger For the back-to-back Billboard Hot 100 charts this year dated Oct. 25 and ...