With production handled entirely by Premier and lyrics driven by Guru, Step Into The Arena helped solidify the raw, ...

The Grammy-nominated rapper and producer helped shape The Score and remained a restless creative force long after his 1990s ...

The pair bonded over music, and Forté, then a relative unknown juggling music with his industry day job, got his commercial ...

World Cafe correspondent John Morrison joins us to talk about why the East Coast rap group Main Source deserves a spot as one ...

Kendrick Lamar's award-season dominance continues with NAACP nominations, capping another monumental year for the rapper.

On this date 45 years ago, Blondie released “Rapture,” a genre bending single that quietly became one of the most important ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...

Ciara photographed by Jonathan Mannion. Makeup by Sheriff. This image is from a spec shoot that Sheriff and Mannion put together for the then budding artist. Ciara’s then record label, LaFace Records, ...

Rap in 2025 was all about experimentation. From the year’s first runaway hit, NBA player-turned-musician Gelo’s single “Tweaker,” to the maximalist ecclesiastics of Playboi Carti’s Music, or even in ...

MIAMI — “Love & Hip Hop: Miami” is back for a seventh season. The show, which follows the lives of some of Miami’s most influential personalities of the culture, is saying adios with a season that ...

We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...

The long-running debate over Hip-Hop and Rap continues to shape global music culture, yet many listeners still struggle to understand the true difference between the two. The world of music is often ...