From the simple AABB rhyme pattern of Kurtis Blow’s “The Breaks” in 1980 to the complex rhyme schemes of rappers like Eminem and Kendrick Lamar, emcees have taken all kinds of approaches to rhyming ...

RAP GENIUS - Our favorite lines this week cover a wide spectrum, from tributes to rap heroes to dirty jokes. It was also a good week for up-and-comers, with Busta Rhymes being the only veteran to make ...

While some are left underwhelmed after listening to the new J. Cole album KOD, a collection of 12 tracks with little tying them together, J. Cole himself could hardly care. KOD has garnered 400,000 ...

Like the beat, beat, beat of the tom-tom. Movement, commentary, passion, rhyme. All wrapped into song. Spoken, sung, experienced. Whether it trips off the tongue or trips up the tongue, it has a beat; ...

Hip-hop as a culture has grown to become a powerful force world-wide, with its music, fashion, and slang influencing all facets of life in continents as far as Europe and Asia. Due to the competitive ...

Even if he did the crime, Busta Rhymes doesn’t want to do the time – and likely won’t have to. The “Touch It” rapper yesterday flatly rejected a prosecutor’s offer of six months behind bars in return ...

If you ever need proof that rapping is hard consider the fact that the Internet exists and people are still bad at it. There are a host of available web resources that can help a struggling rapper ...

A few years ago at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the effortlessly cool Bozoma Saint John, then running marketing efforts for Apple Music, tried to get the audience to first clap in time to ...