There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

It’s not just the lyrics, but the music, the perspective and the community building of hip-hop that have to be studied to understand the genre’s popularity and broad appeal, according to Lauron Kehrer ...

Race relations have been slightly strained in America as of late. Following the unpopular decisions not to indict police officers Darren Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo in the deaths of Michael Brown and ...

When Steph Simon first visited the mansion home of Wyatt Tate Brady, a Ku Klux Klan leader who’s better known as one of Tulsa’s founding fathers, it was to shoot photos and videos for his 2019 rap ...

Carly Breit is the Senior Platforms Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for four years, writing, editing and producing video content for TikTok. Her work has previously appeared in TIME, ...

It's impossible to overstate how golden hip-hop shone in 2017 — the shattered Billboard records, the most-streamed genre recognition from Nielsen. Industry hype aside, rap reflected our collective ...

Back in the mid ’80s, when Wu-Tang Clan first called themselves Force of the Imperial Master, RZA (then known as the Scientist) built a home studio set-up, replete with a four-track recorder and a ...

For most of the 1990s, Adrian "Stretch" Bartos and Robert "Bobbito" Garcia hosted a famous weekly hip-hop radio show on Columbia University's campus radio station, WKCR. Their no-frills, four-hour ...

Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands now. More than ever, rappers are incredibly aware of their chart position. “It’s important,” says Gunna, ...

Contrary to popular belief, rappers – and hip-hop fans at large – have always been nerds. Look no further for proof than Wu-Tang Clan, ostensible stalwarts of hardcore, no-frills, gun-grime-and-crime ...

After coming very close to owning the Billboard 200 albums chart with his first two albums, rapper Juice WRLD has finally claimed the top spot on the listing with his sophomore solo full-length Death ...