The rapper began a working relationship in 2000 when the Chicago-born emcee produced a track for Beanie Sigel, who was signed to Jay’s Roc-A-Fella Records.

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.

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 ...

A series adaptation of “Crazy Rich Asians” is in development at Max. Adele Lim, who co-wrote the 2018 film, has been set as showrunner and executive producer, while director Jon M. Chu will ...

Yang and Ronny Chieng rounding out the starry cast. HBO chief Casey Bloys first teased a Crazy Rich Asians series in 2024, revealing that the Warner Bros. Discovery property was in development for ...

But then there’s Drain Gang, whose eldritch vision of rap represents peak e-boy cool ... and I realize they almost sound like Bladee lyrics. An unshoveled path winds from the train station ...

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 ...