The local rapper and his entourage of collaborators brought warm energy to Cactus Club on Dec. 21.

Before hooking up with Run-D.M.C., New York City session veteran Eddie Martinez had made his rounds with Blondie, Robert Palmer, Mick Jagger and David Lee Roth (and let’s not forget his contributions ...

What’s the first rap song by a Houston artist? It’s debatable but most cite a few records that came about between 1985 and 1987. But there’s another much older often forgotten candidate – Johnny ...

Rap music stands as a vibrant tapestry woven into the very fabric of the Black community, serving not just as an art form but as a resonant voice echoing its culture, struggles, and resilience. Yet, ...

Hey, young world. Here's a story about one measure of the distance hip-hop has traveled in its 50 years. Once upon a time, not long ago, to paraphrase a great rap storyteller, an 11-year-old in Queens ...

Despite how they’ve at times been ideologically pitted against one another, country music and hip-hop are often compared as the two forms of pop music that speak most directly to the everyday problems ...

Top 10 best rap songs of 2025: the most influential, innovative and culturally impactful tracks shaping modern hip-hop.

Nominally a rap album, “Jonatan” rarely behaves like one. What follows instead is a project that treats rap as a loose ...

In conclusion, available data shows both positive and negative effects of hip-hop music on youth Hip Hop has been one of the most prominent musical genres on the global stage for years. Rap songs ...

When Ohio-born rapper Trippie Redd first burst onto the scene in 2017, Donald J. Trump was about to start his first presidential term, Juice Wrld and XXXTentacion were alive, and SoundCloud rap was ...