Afrika Bambaataa passed away in early April, reportedly of prostate cancer, at the age of sixty-eight. His legend is a split ...

Prominent rappers like Travis Scott are weighing in at the Supreme Court about the upcoming execution of James Broadnax in ...

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Both men were arrested for the shooting deaths of music producers Stephen Swan and Matthew Butler in June of 2008, but only ...

Battle rapper Dumbfoundead's memoir 'Spit' documents his rise from age 14 through the L.A. hip-hop underground, capturing the ...

50 Cent is planning to tell his story his way with a new documentary about his life and rap career. On Wednesday (April 8), 50 Cent confirmed on his Instagram page that he's working on a documentary ...

Fab 5 Freddy was hip-hop's first cultural interlocutor on the low. Cable was pumping in suburban Black America, too. And every Saturday night, tuning into Yo! MTV Raps, beginning in late summer '88, ...

Note: This story contains spoilers from “DTF St. Louis” Episode 4. From the very beginning, “DTF St. Louis” has been willing to take big swings. It proved that in its first episode when it revealed ...

There was a time in the 1990s and early 2000s when Mystikal was one of the biggest names in the rap game. The rapper, whose real name is Michael Tyler, was one of the frontmen for Master P’s No Limit ...

There was a time in the 1990s and early 2000s when Mystikal was one of the biggest names in the rap game. The rapper, whose real name is Michael Tyler, was one of the frontmen for Master P’s No Limit ...

Travis Scott, Young Thug, Killer Mike, and a number of other artists and scholars have petitioned the Supreme Court to halt the execution of James Garfield Broadnax, a 19-year-old Black man whose rap ...

Legends of rap, soul and hip-hop, as well as some up-and-coming artists, are heading to Reno-Tahoe stages as winter turns to spring — including a triple bill of ...