The Staten Island, New York-born rap group known as Wu-Tang Clan were instrumental in the genre for several reasons. Above ...

But now rappers are being asked to clean up their ... a leading US rap producer who is hosting the two-day meeting next month, wants artists to abandon songs about drugs and gangsters.

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 ...

“Pushing” finds them seesawing between buzzing industrial rap and a clean, soulful hook ... anniversary of their 2014 sophomore album Foulbrood by releasing two new songs, “Check Please” and “Humorist ...

as well as the boundless energy and verve that New York’s rap scene recently channeled into fusions of drill and Jersey club.

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...

Brother Ali has been a fixture on the underground rap scene for decades now. Ali is currently based in Istanbul, but he came ...

In what can only be described as an unforgettable mix of enthusiasm and cringe, Spokane Transit has officially dropped the ...

Brooklyn-born/Bronx-raised Hip Hop legend KRS-One was a graffiti writer before he was known as the “Blastmaster” of Boogie Down Productions, scribing his name all over the streets of Brooklyn and the ...

By Mesfin Fekadu Tommy Richman’s viral TikTok hit “Million Dollar Baby” — the year’s longest-running No. 1 song on Billboard’s R&B chart — will compete in the rap categories at the ...

Ka’s music was a frame of mind as much as a sound — beginning in the late 2000s, when he was in his mid-30s, he made rap music as if ... Ka wrote of his songs, in an early biographical ...

And there are a number of rap songs -- clean and completely filthy -- with a whole lot of anatomy lessons in the title. But as stated before, this is our business, so we are going with "Blue Eyes ...