Rap music felt as vital as ever in 2017, regaining its dominance on the charts and securing its stranglehold on the pop cultural zeitgeist. As such, there was a lot of rap music to get mad or ...

When writers used to ask if rock was dead, it wasn’t actually a question of life or death. The real issue was power; what was meant by “rock” wasn’t rock music, but the genre’s imperial stature ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, I wrote about how the lack of a legitimate middle class in rap could lead to unforeseeable consequences for the genre of rap as a whole should interest in the biggest names ever ...

Cole Cuchna sees podcasting as the Wild West of the arts. There’s freedom in the novelty of the medium — there aren’t templates for success and there isn’t history to look back on. It’s an extremely ...

Uncle Murda is back. On Monday (Jan. 1), the G-Unit Records rapper returned with "Rap Up 2017," his hilariously frank recap of the last year. As was the case with his last installment, Murda—also ...