Chris Chatmon, founder/CEO of the community-focused organization that includes a youth-based record label, found ‘a safe ...

A judge pushed back the trial date Tuesday for the man accused of orchestrating the killing of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur in a drive-by shooting near the ...

Billboard rounded up rap, R&B and Afrobeats songs by Rema, MF DOOM, Snoop Dogg, Burna Boy, Ashanti and Queen Latifah that sample and interpolate Sade.

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Chris Brown scores a historic milestone on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, becoming the second artist to reach 100 cumulative weeks at No. 1 on the radio ranking, across 11 No. 1 songs in his ...

On Lower, producer Kenny Segal’s crunchy percussion and resplendent keys bring a new dimension to Booker’s husky voice and frayed guitars.

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The instrumental hip ... from 2020 to 2022 that included sexual assault. (Lorenzo “categorically denied” the charges.) Even with controversy at the end of his life, his impact on hip-hop ...

The famed longtime industry exec shaped the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti and was pivotal in Def Jam’s late-Nineties revival ...