Despite being born and raised in Detroit, Laws became best known as a part of the burgeoning West Coast gangster rap scene in the ... and was one of the first female rappers ever signed to Def ...

A police officer is facing backlash after making an off-duty cameo as a rap video vixen. Melissa Mercado, a seven-year NYPD veteran, appeared as a provocative pole-dancer in a New York rapper’s ...

Rap and hip-hop music are in the spotlight once again, especially after the Grammy Awards and Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX ...

After having success as a member of the Sequence, an early female rap group, she re-emerged in the 1990s as a practitioner of sultry, laid-back R&B. By Clay Risen Angie Stone, a hip-hop pioneer in ...

Angie Stone, the Grammy-nominated US hip hop pioneer whose group The Sequence was one of the first all-female groups to record a rap song, has died in a car crash. Stone, 63, known for the 2001 ...