The biggest rap tour of the year is by the same act who leads year-end charts for Top Rap Albums, Hot Rap Songs and Top Rap Artists. He caps an enormous two-year run that included the highest grossing ...

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A Stockton father who threw a birthday party for his daughter last month — an event that ended in four deaths, including three children — was denied bail Thursday.

Laura Segura has been appointed executive director of She Is the Music, the nonprofit dedicated to gender equality and increasing the number of women working in music — including songwriters, ...

The album delivered a mix of street wit, Harlem charm and Camron’s unmistakable wordplay over production rooted in soul, ...

Johnson is talking about his years of “dirt hustling,” when he sold stapled and Xeroxed copies of his zine Unsigned and Hella ...

Psycho Clown and Pagano dethroned WWE's Los Garzas, Berto and Angel, to bring the AAA Tag Team Championship back to its home promotion at TripleMania. Los Garzas captured the titles in June at ...

You might say it was Drake, DJ Premier, or Ice Cube. But the real idea of a beat flip starts with the DJ. In the early days of hip-hop—when DJing was the center of the action and park jams at rec ...

Hip-hop beat-makers are usually unseen. Not all sample-based producers are as reclusive as the torch-bearing loop artist Madlib, but even the most prominent among them are part of the backdrop. After ...

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 dissects ...

Ari Melber's path to the anchor desk of MSNBC's The Beat is as unique as the show itself. His journey –– weaving together legal expertise, a deep-seated passion for hip-hop, and a keen understanding ...