After a year dominated by one major event—Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar—it’s easy to forget that the sounds pushing rap music forward often come from the fringes. That’s why our annual Rappers to Watch ...

In 1981, the band Blondie topped the Billboard charts with the song “Rapture.” The song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on March 28, 1981, and stayed there for two weeks. The song, written by ...

Two weeks after Don Toliver's first Hot Rap Songs chart No. 1 with "Body," "E85" is on top. Travis Scott co-produced both, from the album OCTANE.

Jennifer Lopez said she first discovered rap music while she was still in elementary school. She said the discovery made her almost giddy with excitement and she developed a lifelong love of the genre ...

A recent tiff between underground rap promo pages has sparked an impassioned online debate about the definition of “gimmick rappers” over the past week. Most of it is boring and wrapped up in ...

From streaming to scamming, it has never been easier for a young person to buck the system and make money or gain attention quickly. Not particularly high on this list of ventures is making rap music, ...

ThirumaLi is back, crooning against substance abuse this time. His latest music video, ‘Nonsense’, makes a powerful statement ...

On Friday, he released his new track.

In 1894, “The Little Lost Child” went “platinum” off sheet music sales in what might be considered the first successful music video marketing campaign. Innovations in aurafarming have taken things to ...