Megan Thee Stallion's post-traumatic reset, a left-field Lil Yachty collab, the raunchy return of cupcaKKe: June 28 delivered a truckload of major albums, and a portrait of modern rap's main tension.

Rap icon Nas is joining a creative team to bring a stage musical adaptation of the 1984 hip-hop film classic Beat Street to Broadway. Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, better known as Nas, made the ...

DJ Premier wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter). “Dope Beats and Dope Rhymes. Hip Hop always cuts thru the corny.” Man this new LL Cool J, Rick Ross, Fat Joe joint Produced By Q-Tip is so ...

A London Knights star teamed up with Snoop Dogg to help hype up the hip-hop legend’s Friday night show at Budweiser Gardens. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. The California ...

The two hip-hop icons are teaming up for a project steeped in nostalgia. On Monday (June 11), Common announced on social media the release date of his new collaborative album with fellow hip-hop ...

A nagging tension and stiffness causing serious discomfort and limited mobility, and perhaps even accompanied by lower-back pain and hamstring pain, tight and weak hip flexors are just more ...

Six-time Grammy Award-winning drummer and producer Questlove is digging deep into the roots of hip-hop and uncovering how the genre has impacted culture. He explains it all in his new book "Hip ...

Questlove, the accomplished musician, filmmaker and author, most recently of “Hip-Hop Is History,” is no doubt aware that his title cuts more than one way. It indicates both that hip-hop is a ...

Questlove at the Empire State Building in March. “So much of hip-hop is a reflection of pain, even the joyful parts,” he writes in his new book. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Empire ...

24/7 Wall St. Posted: June 8, 2024 | Last updated: June 8, 2024 Rap and hip-hop music originated in the early 1970s as a minimalist sound that was contradictory to the formulaic and heavily ...

The 2 Live Crew rappers Brother Marquis, right, and Luke Skyywalker perform in Chicago in 1990. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) Brother Marquis, a foundational member of the rap group 2 Live Crew, the ...

There’s a moment where you’re talking to Richard Fulton, the late owner 5th Street Dick’s, an LA rap gathering spot, and he says of hip-hop, “50 years from now…The people who record it ...