Rap’s G League is looking healthy. Last year, when we put together our list of the best teenage rappers, it felt like a struggle to gather good, interesting names. In a genre supposedly dominated by ...

Madison Youth Poet Laureate and rapper Justin Russell insists he wrote his first rap song out of necessity. The diss track, aimed at a sixth-grade math teacher he despised, became infamous among his ...

Many people know him by one name: Chance. A three-time Grammy winner with deep Chicago roots, Chance the Rapper is known for ...

Benny Boom & Terence Paul Winter are teaming on 'Greenlight,' an indie rap drama for Manny Halley Productions and Quality Films.

Dsavv continues taunting Metropolitan Police officers through social media posts and rap videos after executing his second escape from custody within one ...

In 1981, the band Blondie topped the Billboard charts with the song “Rapture.” The song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on March 28, 1981, and stayed there for two weeks. The song, written by ...

Balendra Shah, aka Balen, is a 35-year-old rapper and mayor of Kathmandu now hoping to take his brand of populism to the highest office in Nepal.

Rap emerged from the hip-hop culture that originated in the Bronx in 1973, when DJ Kool Herc pioneered the “breakbeat” technique at a back-to-school party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. The broader hip-hop ...

Rap icon Kurupt is out of the hospital, TMZ has learned. Kurupt's wife and manager Lisa "LeeLee" Brown posted a pic her herself with Tha Dogg Pound chief, writing, "Home is where the heart is... Life ...

From streaming to scamming, it has never been easier for a young person to buck the system and make money or gain attention quickly. Not particularly high on this list of ventures is making rap music, ...