Prosecutors love to cite rap as criminal evidence, but artists and advocates are waging an increasingly successful effort to ...

Prominent rappers like Travis Scott are weighing in at the Supreme Court about the upcoming execution of James Broadnax in ...

The Game has shared that he believes rap is in a "sad" place without Drake releasing new music. During a new interview with ...

Al Kapone and DJ Zirk hosted the Memphis Rap OGz set at RiverBeat, which featured Tom Skeemask, Gangsta Blac, Frayser Boy, ...

Attorneys for a Black man scheduled to be executed in Texas say the introduction of rap lyrics he wrote biased an almost ...

Cleetis Mack, a member of the iconic 1990s rap ground Digital Underground, has died. A rep for Mack told TMZ that the rapper ...

Rap music—an art form that turned fifty this year despite being pronounced dead many times over—supposedly died again on April 19, amid the ongoing contest of champions between Compton and Toronto’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Hip-hop is bigger than ever, as it’s the most-consumed genre of ...

An innovative James Cook University experiment has found rap-related cues shape how people judge a hypothetical fan accused ...

With his chunky silver rings and sunglasses, wide kimonos and high heels, the self-dubbed “Piano King” has made a name for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Javier Hasse is a cannabis and psychedelics reporter and book author. Tens of millions of social media followers. Thousands of ...

From freestyle generators to rhyme analyzers, AI is stepping into the hip-hop arena with tools that mimic — and sometimes innovate — the craft of rap lyricism. These systems can create bars with ...