The Courant’s arts picks for Feb. 16-22 include Boston-based hip-hop and blues acts, a benefit for trans rights, The Lox ...

Rap music has long been a voice for struggle triumph and everyday life, but one Oakland record label is using it to create something deeper.

Many years ago, Astros radio play-by-play broadcaster Robert Ford penned an essay about his father, Robert “Rocky” Ford Jr., ...

In June 2024, T1 Entertainment dropped its “T1 All Stars” album, which featured Klazik along with Iowa-based hip-hop artists ...

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Wednesday unveiled a relatively short list of 14 nominees for induction as performers in 2025, including two hitmaking women — Mariah Carey and Cyndi Lauper — one ...

If the Eagles won the Super Bowl, then the next Amplifier playlist would be made up entirely of songs by artists from Philadelphia. The football gods upheld their end of this bargain — in case you ...

The loss of Irv Gotti, who died last week at the age of 54, is immense. The Hollis, Queens native was a relic from an era when being a hip-hop multi-hyphenate wasn’t about diversifying your portfolio ...

Armon Capel, a.k.a MAC Dablacksheep, is a hip-hop artist from Fayetteville ... MAC pressed up CDs with his music and distributed them throughout school. More:PHOTOS: Rakeem Jones' images from ...

A month prior, 52-year-old Common and 54-year-old producer Pete Rock had released “The Auditorium, Vol. 1.” In response to 9th Wonder, legendary hip-hop artist Q-Tip warned ... has had an outstanding ...

This is an updated version of a story that originally ran in 2017. Fellow New Jersey music diehards, this is it — the ultimate Garden State music bucket list: 51 Jersey albums that wholly define our ...

By Jim Farber In the late ’70s, when the star hip-hop producer Prince Paul was just 10 years old, he heard a song ... But their children’s experience at school had a negative effect.

A hip-hop awards show and festival that could attract "hundreds of celebrity guests" and "thousands of tourists" is planned for August in Memphis, organizers said Wednesday. The "For Us By Us Hip ...