Like a soap opera, you skip an episode and lose track of the story. For the past month, two of the most successful hip-hop artists of recent times—Kendrick Lamar and Drake—have been embroiled in a ...

When Marc Andreessen was building the first Web browser, Mosaic, in 1993, he planned to include an annotation function. "It was a very simple implementation," says Andreessen. "I think that all I did ...

As one long-running hip-hop smash goes recurrent on the chart, the Hot 100's top 40 does not boast a single rap song, ending a streak that's lasted for over 35 years. By Andrew Unterberger With ...

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 ...

Rap music is often viewed as the ode to gang violence. Ask Florida millionaires and they might tell you that rap music has no place in a gentrified society. Of course, Tupac, Lil Wayne, and even ...

Gregory Qaiyum and Jeffrey Qaiyum, aka GQ and JQ, have been around for years now. I recall watching their breakout “add-rap-tation,” called “The Bomb-itty of Errors,” in 1999, which is before some ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Can rap lyrics about shooting people be used as evidence against the writer of those lyrics who is on trial for shooting people? When Vonte Skinner was under investigation for ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Future, Young Thug, Playboi Carti, Migos and Lil Uzi Vert. If you’ve heard those names over the past year, it’s because they’re at the forefront of rap’s hottest movement. Some call ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Democratic New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman about the RAP Act, which would bar the use of music lyrics as evidence in court proceedings. The Restoring Artists ...