Nance. Photo by Linus Johnson. Vulnerability is to hip-hop what a well-crafted sample is to beat-making—an essential element that provides depth, emotion, and authenticity to the final composition.

Milwaukee's hip-hop scene has reached a golden age. Not that there hasn't been success before. But what we're seeing now coming from Milwaukee artists is unprecedented. For the first time, there are ...

I was targeted by Charlie Kirk’s organization, Turning Point USA, because I make rap music. Before I was appointed professor of Hip-Hop in 2017, I wrote an album called Owning My Masters: The ...

Macyn "Mac Sauce" McMillian is an 11-year-old Kansas City rapper on a mission to make rap music appropriate for kids her age. She records her songs at Studio B Muzik Studio in Raytown. Kansas City has ...

So what’s Saab Stories going to be? It’s going to be an EP that me and Bronson put out sometime probably early this year, hopefully before summertime. It’s the combination of me and him, doing what we ...

Rapper Belly meets up with Ebro Darden on the golf course to discuss the process of making ‘Mumble Rap 2’, the first of his final three albums and 12th mixtape. On the golf course, Rapper Belly talks ...

Issa Rae’s new series may be called Rap Sh!t, but the HBO Max comedy is as much about every day life in Miami for Black people across the diaspora as it is breaking into the music industry. “First it ...

Tapes, CDs and diss songs on which rappers actually named names. It was all so simple then. Straight-up disses and physical media have been replaced with subliminals and streaming. The rap game has ...