Bonnie Godiva put a beat on and savagely ran through the ups and downs in the battle rap community over the last 12 months. End-of-year rap ups have become an annual tradition in Hip-Hop, thanks to ...

Rushing from elementary school with handwritten raps in her pocket, 10-year-old Alyssa Michelle Stephens would hop in her father’s “old-school cars with [24-inch] rims” and head straight to the ...

This year felt like a changing of the guard in rap. While many bigger artists released disappointing albums or stayed quiet, the smaller ones stepped up. Promising newcomers became fixtures. Fixtures ...

Cardi B has made history as the first female rapper to receive diamond certification on multiple songs. On Monday, the top-charting rapper’s 2018 collaborative single with Maroon 5, “Girls Like You,” ...

Throughout hip-hop’s history, women have been trendsetters and rule-breakers in the culture without being properly recognized as such. DJ Kool Herc is credited as hip-hop’s founding father for playing ...

The days of rappers hassling radio DJs to play their singles and selling mixtapes on the street are officially over. Why? Because artists are finding much more success online by going viral on ...

MC Lyte doesn’t think she would make it in today’s rap game — because she likes to wear pants on stage. The hip hop legend — who in 1988 became the first female MC to release an album, “Lyte as a Rock ...

NEW YORK — When Naturi Naughton read the script for ABC's new music-inspired drama "Queens," a feeling of deja vu rushed through her. "It's definitely a little eerie to me. When I read the script, I ...

Apple Music is celebrating a full decade of changing how the world listens to music. Over the past ten years, the platform has evolved from an ambitious launch to a dominant force in music streaming.

In 1981, MC Sha-Rock and her group, the Funky 4 + 1, were invited to perform on Saturday Night Live. It was one of the first nationally televised rap performances ever, expanding the reach of the ...

“N*ggas been rapping bout the same thing since rap was invented.” Once again, sections of Hip Hop culture are taking part in a conversation about the content of modern-day female rappers. Hitmaka (fka ...