I went to a Restraining Order show at the Crystal Palace, a Richmond punk house that has since burned down. I got there before Grand Scheme, the first band on the bill, started their set. It looked ...

Since the Eighties, Miami has been deeply intertwined with hip-hop culture. The city has produced artists such as 2 Live Crew ...

In August 2024, music producer 9th Wonder proposed a new “Adult Contemporary” category for rap music. A month prior, 52-year-old Common and 54-year-old producer Pete Rock had released “The Auditorium, ...

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like 4Fargo, Bryant Barnes and THEY. 2025 is only three weeks old and the rap world is in full-swing. Outside of the headlines ...

Philadelphia is mourning the tragic loss of 17-year-old Noah Scurry, a standout student-athlete from Samuel Fels High School ... recently ventured into drill rap under the alias “OtvJoker.” ...

In an opinion filed Tuesday, McMullen overturned Britton's conviction and remanded the case back to a Davidson County courtroom for a new trial after she found evidence — rap lyrics and screen ...

Indiana School Song Project Reta Williams has been on a wonderful mission to find hundreds of lost and forgotten fight song lyrics that once boomed inside the gymnasiums of now-shuttered Indiana ...

But also written online were the lyrics: “Caught Grippa lackin’ on ... Kelyan told his story using his drill rap moniker Grippa. The name itself relates to holding a weapon, be that a knife ...

In modern culture, hip-hop stands alone in this regard, and as it celebrates its 50 th birthday this month, we can see just how beloved and influential it has become. While it would be nearly ...

That was the question presented before the Maryland Court of Appeals earlier this year after rap lyrics sang in a jailhouse phone call ... helped the state convince a jury the 27-year-old Annapolis ...