The answer is that country music won’t let everyone go country. This is where the merely popular becomes intensely political, and those politics have a limit. To reap the genre’s rewards, an artist ...

Gospel rapper Ranja Mistari (real name Karanja Njenga) has talked about staying grounded in faith and fame, the myths ...

The album not only hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 but is now widely recognized as the best rap album of the 2020s. And, ...

These Black artists predicted everything from beating a murder case to the issues of climate change way before it even happened.

That all changed in January when Snoop did a short DJ set at David Sacks’ Crypto Ball, a Washington D.C. schmoozefest held to celebrate Donald Trump’s re-inauguration. Fans on social media rebelled, ...

Kingmaker is an ambitious return to form, with Xzibit fully embracing his veteran status in the hopes of spreading some ...

T—one of Hip Hop’s most influential voices and a true pioneer of gangsta rap—released his fourth studio album, O.G. Original ...

The Godfather of Gangsta Rap is getting a digital makeover through the power of A.I. that'll have him live through infinite ...

Behind a lot of that money, fame and success hip-hop can bring are just two humans holding it down for each other. In rap’s ...

The years between 1990 and 2000 are usually reminisced on through a lens of nostalgia by music fans, and for good reason. The ...

Dyalekt, an educator who incorporates hip-hop into his subject matters and trains other teachers on doing the same, talks to ...

Rapper Xatar has died at the age of 43. The circumstances of his death are still unclear. His friends and colleagues are ...