Hip-hop beat-makers are usually unseen. Not all sample-based producers are as reclusive as the torch-bearing loop artist Madlib, but even the most prominent among them are part of the backdrop. After ...

The best new hip-hop this week includes albums, videos, and songs from Conway The Machine, Young Thug, and more. A grime rapper from Ladbroke Grove, West London, Tracey has been building his ...

Rap Research Lab continues what hip hop has been doing for the past half century: playfully rearranging the words, sounds, and textures of postwar American pop music. Installation view of Tahir ...

Conway The Machine and Funkmaster Flex are a hot topic of current Hip-Hop discussion, this after the Buffalo, N.Y. rapper called out the Hot 97 DJ for his lack of supporting underground acts. Funk ...

Thirty years ago, hip-hop was background noise at small house parties in Harlem and the South Bronx. Now, it's a multibillion-dollar empire. A new book, The Big Payback: The History of the Business of ...

Yung Joc performing at Mayo Civic Center in Rochester (Photo by Nagashia Jackson for rolling out) Bobby Bookings Promotion is the top promotion company in Rochester, Minnesota and well-known for ...

This essay proposes an alternative invention strategy for research-based argumentative writing. By investigating the coincidental usage of the term "whatever" in hip-hop, theory, and composition ...

Machine Gun Kelly may be finished releasing Eminem diss tracks, but he's keeping his feud with the rapper alive. Appearing on the Power 105.1 radio show The Breakfast Club on Thursday ahead of his new ...

Machine Gun Kelly this week shared a video that acts as a kind of introduction to his new artistic era surrounding Mainstream Sellout, the eclectic musician's forthcoming album that arrives on March ...

Machine Gun Kelly started his career as a hip-hop musician, but for the past year or two, his tastes have shifted. His latest album Tickets To My Downfall is decided pop-punk in sound and subject ...

Installation view of Tahir Hemphill: Rap Research Lab at the Center for Art, Design & Visual Culture at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (all images courtesy the artist, photos by Tedd Henn) ...