When Hip Hop meets pop, the result is often pure magic. Some of the most memorable moments in music come from when a rap verse jumps into a pop track, adding a fresh layer of attitude, energy, and ...

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"Just A Friend" screamed POP HIT! The "vocalist," a Long Island, New York MC, deejay and beat boxing jokester, was laughably out of key. Yet the beloved "Just A Friend," with its absurdly infectious ...

For the first time, Billboard's Hot 100 Top 40 doesn't feature a single rap song. Is this due to changing listener preferences or recent rule changes?

When you think about love in rap, Common's "The Light" is an essential example. From his album "Like Water for Chocolate", Common raps heartfelt lines of devotion over a mesmerizing J Dilla beat, ...

At first glance, rapper Shwayze seems a lot like every other rapper to recently hit the club scene. The first single from his new album, "Let It Beat," is a pulsating, rhythmic wasteland of auto-tune ...

The world of popular music looks different on the outside than it does behind the scenes. On the face of it, things often seem smooth. An artist performs a song, it rockets up the charts, and everyone ...

As hip-hop celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, headlines swirled around its potentially diminishing force as a commercial juggernaut: The first half of the year didn’t see a rap song or album ...

Since Drake’s debut, dozens of rapper like Doja Cat, Lil Yachty, and Young Thug have blurred the lines of pop music and rap ...

Silverset is an alternative rock trio consisting of Nicki Fruth (vocals), Grant Hespeler (guitar) and Jon Stenz (drums), two ...

When you think of the early 1990s, it’s probably not pop music that comes to mind. For most music fans, the early 1990s is about the heart of grunge music, the rise of rap, and the lingering ...

An oral language rich in history from Peru is having a moment, with artists using it in hip hop, rap, trap, and pop music. It's not Spanish, and it's not Latin. Quechua is a language all its own.