Let’s get this out of the way at the beginning: there is no handful of songs that ever completely encapsulate any genre or artist or sound. The beauty of art is that it’s ephemeral—to quote a famed ...

In 2018, the censors who oversee Chinese media issued a directive to the nation's entertainment industry: Don't feature artists with tattoos and those who represent hip-hop or any other subculture.

Lizzo asked the Nappy Boy Entertainment hitmaker if he ever thinks about his impact.

The culture of hip-hop was born out of necessity. From there, its innovation marked its rise as much as anything. As some say, hip-hop didn’t invent anything. Instead, it reinvented everything. And it ...

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Memphis Rap is a form of underground hip-hop that spread in the 1990s in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, primarily through the ...

Hip hop is everywhere these days. It's the biggest genre in the world. But its history in Australia is brief. Not only that, but its significance was pretty misunderstood down here even as late as the ...

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: On last week's Billboard Hot 100, there were no rap songs in the top 40.

For rap artiste Farhan Khan, music has never been about staying within the boundaries of a single genre. Drawing from Urdu ...