At the March 4, 2025, meeting of the Miami-Dade County Commission, Commissioner Keon Hardemon failed to win the votes needed to rename some Liberty City streets after rap and hip-hop lyrics.

Did “Alright” Win Any Awards? Yes, “Alright” won two Grammy Awards in 2016 for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song. It also won several other awards, including a BET Award nomination ...

Kendrick Lamar is a rapper, songwriter, and record producer widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of his generation. Lamar’s music explores themes of race, identity, social ...

Angie Stone, the Grammy-nominated US hip hop pioneer whose group The Sequence was one of the first all-female groups to record a rap song, has died in a car crash. Stone, 63, known for the 2001 ...

Gunn's work can be seen as a convincing argument against taking lyrics at face value. Though rap can be a lens into what is happening on the streets, as both the news of the ghetto and first ...

MANILA, Philippines — A task force of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday filed a complaint before the City Prosecutor’s Office of Manila against an Isabela vice mayoral aspirant for ...

The best rap beats are nerdy as hell. Every drum placement, every melody, every chopped-up sample sends me down a YouTube rabbit hole trying to piece together the way a producer contorts and ...

Some other thoughts and questions: Is it time for Tyler to rap over other producers’ beats? One of the most electric moments of the night was Tyler’s late-show performance of “That Guy ...

One of the two men convicted of murdering rap legend Jam Master Jay was stabbed during a melee at a New York City jail over the weekend, according to two sources familiar with the attack.

Here are the lyrics to Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "Luther," which topped the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. By Rania Aniftos Kendrick Lamar and SZA made waves with their latest team-up ...

Arvin Temkar, Atlanta Journal Constitution via AP Hip-hop lyrics have, for years, been weaponized in U.S. courtrooms. As rap celebrates its 50th anniversary, the genre also marks a lengthy history ...