About 15 years ago, an Indian rapper of humble origins broke onto the country's then-infertile hip-hop music scene and transformed it forever. He teased, cajoled and vexed his listeners, daring ...

“There ain’t a person alive that be matching the vibe/And it honestly ain’t even fair,” he raps over intense drumming powered by the traditional chenda from the southwest Indian state of ...

Angie Stone, the Grammy-nominated US hip hop pioneer whose group The Sequence was one of the first all-female groups to record a rap song, has died in a car crash. Stone, 63, known for the 2001 ...

That doesn't mean they're not "real" February 28, 202510:00 AM ET Most rap is surreal in some sense, constantly playing with incongruity in various ways, and hustler rappers in particular have ...

MANILA, Philippines — A task force of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday filed a complaint before the City Prosecutor’s Office of Manila against an Isabela vice mayoral aspirant for ...

The best rap beats are nerdy as hell. Every drum placement, every melody, every chopped-up sample sends me down a YouTube rabbit hole trying to piece together the way a producer contorts and ...

Some other thoughts and questions: Is it time for Tyler to rap over other producers’ beats? One of the most electric moments of the night was Tyler’s late-show performance of “That Guy ...