Today, rock and rap can be thought of as quite different. When someone begins to describe what kind of music they like, they’ll say, “I like rock, rap…” Hardly ever are they considered siblings, or ...

No one believes that country music legend Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. When Cash in 1968 released “Folsom Prison Blues,” a ballad about shooting and killing a man for no ...

The post The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of Rap-Rock Crossovers in 10 Songs appeared first on Consequence. Rock music and hip-hop were never quite opposites. Hip-hop emerged through the use of ...

Funk allowed Black musicians and their audiences to shapeshift and speak truth to power—even while speaking in tongues. But as Stanley Nelson and Nicole London’s documentary WE WANT THE FUNK! reveals, ...

Todd Boyd started writing his new book, “Rapper’s Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made the World,” about three years ago, though in many ways, it’s been underway for decades. “I’ve been telling that in many ways, ...

At various points in my previous articles, I have at least pointed to the fact that I, having been born in the 2000s, had to learn about hip-hop out of order, at least compared to those who had been ...

The bill would be the first of its kind to become law in the U.S. The California state Senate passed a bill that would limit the use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal proceedings -- a ...