THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR RAP SONGS RANKED BY MAINSTREAM R&B/HIP-HOP AND RHYTHMIC RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS, AS MEASURED BY MEDIABASE AND PROVIDED BY LUMINATE. STATIONS ARE ELECTRONICALLY ...

The cool thing about West Coast rap, it's not just a Los Angeles sound, rappers also hail from cities like Long Beach, Sacramento, Oakland, San Francisco, and so much more. From Dr. Dre to E-40 ...

The history of rap music, all things considered, doesn't go back too far. The genre came out of New York in the late 1970s ...

Some believe that the 1990s was the golden era of rap music. Though the genre was created in the late 1970s in the parks of New York City and later honed in the 1980s thanks to groups like Run-DMC and ...

We spoke with Erin Haney, the chief policy officer at REFORM Alliance, to get a better understanding of Young Thug's punitive ...

prone to viewing the street violence tied to rap like a reality show, Von’s death wasn’t a sign that things had gone too far, it was just another plot point. The dividing lines were drawn by ...

Explore hip-hop and rap-related collections from across the Smithsonian that offer perspective on the African American experience and its impact on American culture. Visit an online experience on the ...

And [they’re] the only reason I’m doing it.” It’s still polarizing for artists to admit that rap is mostly a hustle to them. Purists are often dismayed at the notion that someone would rap ...