Ye - formerly Kanye West - blasted J. Cole and his music during another X rant on Tuesday night (April 1), but it didn't seem ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Nav, Will Smith, and Lil Durk.

From the golden age of rap to present day, look at (and listen to) some of the most iconic funk samples ever used in hip-hop, and watch WE WANT THE FUNK! on PBS.

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Ye has had multiple targets in his rants on X (formerly Twitter), but there is always room for more. The 47-year-old opened ...

Hip Hop has long been a male-dominated industry, where women have had to fight twice as hard for recognition—whether on the ...

Cymande’s influence on hip-hop culture is huge. But with new album Renascence, the spotlight returns to the funk institution, ...

Women only really emerged in Tunisia’s male-dominated rap scene with the revolution in 2011. And they’re rapping about much ...

Bishop Brigante, a hip-hop musician and battle rap legend from Toronto, lost his fight with colorectal cancer and died at the age of 46.

A Massachusetts teenager killed in a double stabbing in March was remembered by his family for aspiring to read the whole ...

A half-decade has passed since the last Black Violin album, "Give Thanks," dropped. But the unique violin and viola playing ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay ...