“Freestyle Love Supreme,” the hip-hop improv show that won a special Tony Award for its Broadway run, is different every night. Different guest stars. Different audience input. Different rap riffs.

NEW YORK (AP) — It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song's vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. It was then that hip-hop came into the ...

Things have changed for Canadian rapper Keynes Woods since he broke out a few years ago with a hair-raising, lyrically lethal COLORS performance of his song “Threat.” For one thing, the Congo-born, ...

Star2 is a visionary who imagines a future full of opportunities for Asian-American rappers like himself. He was born at a Thai refugee camp and grew up in San Diego surrounded by violence from a ...

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 ...

For Best Rap Album, winners tend to be critically acclaimed. While "Michael’s" reception was not necessarily rapturous, it got far better reviews than Scott's "Utopia" and Drake and 21 Savage's "Her ...

Chance the Rapper, as the world knows him, almost had a completely different identity. In a recent conversation with Ebro Darden on Apple Music 1, the 30-year-old Chicago rapper reflected on the 10th ...

There’s an old saying that goes, “There’s nothing new under the sun.” Meaning there’s nearly nothing on Earth that hasn’t been tried already. The same goes for hip-hop. In the genre’s 51 years of ...

Kazuma Kawamura, a member of the 16-piece Japanese dance and vocal group THE RAMPAGE, has now made his solo debut as L.E.I. with the double A-side single “Delete/Enter.” While he’s done some rapping ...

While Spanish rap music has long dominated music charts abroad, the genre has recently experienced an uptick in listeners based in the United States. From Justin Bieber’s feature on Daddy Yankee and ...

Jim Jones shared an explainer for devotees of the Rap Rockstar lifestyle, “just [in case] u don’t know why u on it now.” Jim Jones claims he caused a shift in Hip-Hop fashion by starting the Rap ...