"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs sued by two women who say they were sexually assaulted at Trump hotel - The women, who are each identified ...

DMX, Ja Rule and Ashanti, died Wednesday. He was 54. His cause of death has not been made public, but it's known he had ...

Rapsody is the third female rapper to win Best Melodic Rap Performance, following Lauryn Hill, who won the award in 1999 for ...

In two new Jane Doe lawsuits, the women describe strikingly similar sexual assaults at the Manhattan hotel in the 1990s.

Sampling is a creative technique in music production that involves taking portions of existing songs, be it melodies, rhythms, or vocal ...

The Grammy winner for best rap album shouted out hometown talent during her acceptance speech, leaving artists in the Florida ...

While much of winter still lies ahead of us, signs of spring are near. Among the earliest harbingers of spring are the show ...

Winning a Grammy is one of the proudest moments of an artists career; however, there are some people who have won for the ...

At its core, hip-hop is a voice for the voiceless seeking to address systemic inequities through storytelling.

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

February ends on the 28th at the Big Room with a night of East Los Angeles “souldies” with The Altons and Thee Sinseers. The Altons say that the quartet “curate (s) a ballad of retro-indie-soul” bit ...