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 ...

Several MCs including 50 Cent, Missy Elliot and DMX went through some incredibly difficult times to achieve success.

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 rappers and more.

Students and parents at a public junior high school in Tokyo have been in an uproar since the school banned hip-hop dancing and forced ... hard to the tunes of artists like Chanmina and Ariana ...

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

Kwame Ametepee Tsikata—better known as Ghanaian hip-hop artist M.anifest—is smiling ... he also attended school at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he earned a Bachelor of ...

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the ...

Spread the love Rap music, with its rich history and diverse styles, has produced countless masterpieces over the decades.

Queen Latifah can still spit hot fire as effortlessly as she belts a note. The beauty is, she’s proven she doesn’t have to choose between the two. In the roughly 30 years since her recording ...