On this date 45 years ago, Blondie released “Rapture,” a genre bending single that quietly became one of the most important crossover records in Hip Hop history. Released in 1981 from the album ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grammy Award-winning hip-hop legends Salt-N-Pepa have officially made history as the first female rap group to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Formed in 1985, the groundbreaking trio — ...

Pioneering female rap group Salt-N-Pepa, who are in the middle of a dispute over ownership of their masters, used their induction speeches at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony on Saturday to ...

They’re still number one in the 631. Rap pioneers JVC Force put the suburbs on the hip-hop map with the iconic anthem “Strong Island” in the late 1980s — and their funk-filled ode to Long Island has ...

Christian Takes the Gun Parrish, a member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Nation, says he grew up in a “hip-hop desert,” on his tribe’s south-central Montana reservation south of Billings. But in the late ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Loud rhythmic music with rapping vocals pulsates inside the walls of CycleYou Fitness and Sauna in Lexington on this Thursday night. Hip hop dancers are warming up in the dimly ...

In the 1990s, a Wichita hip-hop group called Danoiz almost made it big through a distribution deal with Sony and some national attention, such as play on BET. Now, two video producers are going to ...

If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...

LONDON (AP) — A London court on Friday threw out a terror-related charge against a member of the controversial Irish rap group Kneecap, basing its decision on a ...

LONDON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - A member of Irish rap group Kneecap won his bid on Friday to throw out his terrorism prosecution for allegedly displaying a flag of Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah, ...