Prosecutors love to cite rap as criminal evidence, but artists and advocates are waging an increasingly successful effort to ...

Cleetis Mack, a member of the iconic 1990s rap ground Digital Underground, has died. A rep for Mack told TMZ that the rapper ...

Prominent rappers like Travis Scott are weighing in at the Supreme Court about the upcoming execution of James Broadnax in ...

The solo LP, his sixth, drops May 21 and features the single “Babygirl” ...

An innovative James Cook University experiment has found rap-related cues shape how people judge a hypothetical fan accused ...

Rap music—an art form that turned fifty this year despite being pronounced dead many times over—supposedly died again on April 19, amid the ongoing contest of champions between Compton and Toronto’s ...

Attorneys for a Black man scheduled to be executed in Texas say the introduction of rap lyrics he wrote biased an almost ...

Hip-hop has its share of memorable debut albums, some of which rank among the genre's greatest of all-time. None of them have ...

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Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at birth and freestyle rapping since he was six, the artist born Jaquawn Gatson performed at ...

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