It’s a cycle on repeat: A beloved rapper is murdered. Family, friends and fans react online. The case is investigated yet typically goes unsolved. The hip-hop community calls for change, but there ...

Hey, young world. Here's a story about one measure of the distance hip-hop has traveled in its 50 years. Once upon a time, not long ago, to paraphrase a great rap storyteller, an 11-year-old in Queens ...

Rap music stands as a vibrant tapestry woven into the very fabric of the Black community, serving not just as an art form but as a resonant voice echoing its culture, struggles, and resilience. Yet, ...

While plenty of energy was spent this year debating whether or not rap was still at the forefront of pop culture as it reached its fiftieth anniversary, there was no shortage of exciting new music to ...

Spanning the 19 years between 1989 and 2008, BET’s Rap City was the longest running hip-hop TV show in history. It helped rap grow from urban shout to suburban obsession in the late Eighties, ...

Toughness has been an admirable trait in the world of hip-hop for quite some time. The game has always placed a premium on street cred, which is a testament to one's reputation throughout the areas ...

At the start of this century, as MySpace and LiveJournal were remaking the social hierarchies of youth culture, a crushing wave surged into mainstream view. The aesthetic movement that history would ...

The West Coast rapper is an unsung pioneer of some of the genre’s most central elements. Too Short onstage in Washington State in July.Credit...Abdi Ibrahim for The New York Times Supported by By Tom ...

Sports like basketball and boxing are more likely to get compared to rap as an art form in sentiment, but that doesn't mean that football isn't also a major staple in the world of hip-hop. If you were ...

Hip hop was really ahead of its time given today's social media landscape. You don't have to go far on the Web to find someone using rap lyrics to beef up their online profile. Rappers like Drake ...