Playboi Carti sounds like he isn’t saying much. But there’s a story to his music.

Saba and No ID are two legends of Chicago hip-hop, from two different generations. Saba is the cerebral rap poet who made his name with corrosively pained classics like 2018’s Care for Me and 2022’s ...

A map showcasing 30 Bronx locations integral to the birth of hip-hop—signed by prominent industry figures—will be available ...

So his SF performance at the Monday night party of Legacy, a North Beach bar, caught my eye — and the eye of just about every other fitted cap-wearing, old-school hip-hop head in town.

Meet the buzzy folk-pop songwriter, plus a dancey noise band, a dexterous Dominican M.C., a new generation of SoundCloud ...

Mitsuko Isoda, an education professor at Saitama University who wrote a book on how to use hip-hop and rap music in school curriculums, said that there may be a gap between the older generation ...

Hip-Hop Wired has compiled 10 songs that sampled Roberta Flack’s music. My first time hearing Roberta Flack occurred when I was in elementary school via the song “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” a ...

Some songs are more than just hits—they become the foundation of future music. Over the decades, certain tracks have been ...

As a solo artist, j-hope is the bomb. The 31-year-old member of Korea’s biggest music group BTS, who started as a dancer, has emerged as a fine singer-songwriter in the hip-hop mold. In 2018, five ...

In 2015, while on an apparent hiatus, Badu released a remix of Drake’s gargantuan smash “Hotline Bling.” Produced by the ...

The 55-year-old Combs, his beard noticeably grayer than ... Combs used the “power and prestige” he wielded as a music mogul to intimidate, threaten and lure women into his orbit, often under ...