"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

The New York rapper would write his name into folklore by introducing the term to us mere mortals. Speaking on CBS Sunday Morning in September 2024, the rapper revealed how he came up with the idea to ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County prosecutors rested their case Thursday at the trial of rapper and fashion mogul A$AP ...

The rapper, who has been married to Grammy-winning artist Cardi B, with whom he shares three children, competed in the long jump at Riverside Military Academy under his name, Kiari Cephus. The Migos ...

A founder of Murder Inc. Records, he helped launch the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti and was credited as a producer on 28 ...

The FADER breaks down the best rap songs of January 2025 featuring tracks from Rio Da Yung OG, LIl Hawa, Fivio Foreign, ...

Rapper 50 Cent (real name Curtis James Jackson III) recently responded to news of rival Irv Gotti's death. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the record executive's passing on Wednesday, February 5, ...

This year's Met Gala is starting to take shape, and one celebrity from Massachusetts is already slated to suit up for it. The ...

Before he was a Pulitzer prize winner with nearly two dozen Grammy awards under his belt, he was a student in Compton. Famed ...

Notorious B.I.G.'s estate is taking large companies to task for illegally capitalizing off the late rapper's image and ...

Rondail Henry already had 19 arrests on his rap sheet when he allegedly stabbed a teenager on a Brooklyn subway train — but a ...

He was accused of leading the group to the rented mansion where the 20-year-old New York rapper Pop Smoke, whose legal name was Bashar Barakah Jackson, was killed on Feb. 19, 2020, during what was to ...