The current US Top 30 has no songs that could be officially described as rap or hip-hop – for the first time since 1990. That ...

Primarily through direct sampling, hip-hop music provides a blatant tapestry of historical information that the listener can ...

While plenty of energy was spent this year debating whether or not rap was still at the forefront of pop culture as it reached its fiftieth anniversary, there was no shortage of exciting new music to ...

In the 50-year history of hip-hop, N.W.A., Tupac and Kendrick Lamar have been three of the most influential and highly recognized artists. The albums solidifying each of them as musical genuineness — ...

The first few seconds of Marwan Moussa’s song “3AMEL EH” open with an interaction between the rapper and a voice that seemingly belongs to his therapist. The therapist can be heard asking the ...