The current hip-hop landscape has been shaped by trends that began in March 2020 and lasted until the spring of 2021, when ...

Tampa native ChaseWest will take over Factory Town during Miami Music Week for his Chaste Records showcase. "After six or seven years of producing and refining ideas, we've created our own unique ...

As Chimchilla, Mez has worked with artists including Seddy Hendrinx, Joey Fatts, Tony Shnnow, Dej Loaf and Kalan.FrFr, as ...

At its best, their devotion creates something symbiotic — a real-life sounding board for his ideas ... I get when I rap like this. I see the response I get when the song is this long.

Loren Kajikawa, associate professor of music at George Washington University ... “In this way, hip-hop has proven a useful vehicle for voicing quote unquote ‘politically incorrect ideas’ and adopting ...

Sampling is a brilliant way to reference another piece of work, but here's five examples of where artists have looked back over their own past.

The legal dispute between MF DOOM’s widow, Jasmine Dumile Thompson, and former Stones Throw label executive Eothen “Egon” ...

It’s 31 degrees with threat of a thunderstorm on the horizon when Ice Cube, one of the icons of the golden age of west coast ...

During long workdays, song ideas would come to him unexpectedly ... he eventually returned to Vietnam to compete in Rap Viet. “Coming back was life-changing—music helped me overcome ...

I flipped through each one, full, cover-to-cover, with weighty poems, future mixtape ideas ... missed how Black music—soul, house, techno, jazz, and rap—felt like it was the pulse of Detroit ...

HOUSTON, TX – MAY 8: Rapper 50 Cent on stage at Minute Maid Park on May 8, 2015 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Ed ...

We started this from scratch. No one else ever did this.” Anthony ‘Tank’ Dunbar looked around the wide-open space of Toad’s ...