The emcee, best known as one-half of Eric B. & Rakim, joins the ranks of past inductees like Roxanne Shanté and Edo.G this ...

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Though some feared for the genre’s relevance in 2025, rap is well represented in the noms — especially Album of the Year ...

Wrestling fans might know the hip-hop star Westside Gunn due to his work with All Elite Wrestling, where he created the ...

Known for fusing hip-hop with punk rock, electronic, noise, and industrial styles, the group has not released an album since ...

For the first time this decade, three rap albums are nominated for Album of the Year at the 2026 Grammys. Here’s why hip-hop ...

Kanye West called Erick Sermon sometime in May 2023 and wanted the EPMD co-founder to hop a flight to Los Angeles to work on ...

Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.

Daniel Caesar attains his first No. 1 on Billboard ’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as Son of Spergy begins atop the list dated Nov. 8. The set, released on Oct. 24 through Hollace/Republic Records, ...

The exit of “luther” reignites the contentious debate of rap’s commercial decline in 2025. While this theory is supported by ...

At the time, Method Man, Raekwon, and Old Dirty Bastard had already cemented themselves as boundary-pushing acts with three ...

Photo screenshot: Clipse YOUTUBE/ Clipse - So Be It (Official Music Video) Clipse made their stance crystal clear about what constitutes essential hip-hop knowledge during a recent festival appearance ...