The app offers prerecorded beats and word cues to let anyone create a rap track. More advanced rappers can take a freestyle challenge. Laura wrote about e-commerce and Amazon, and she occasionally ...

From Clipse to Tyler, the Creator to billy woods to Ovrkast to Bruiser Wolf, here are our favorite rap albums of 2025.

Many remember Alberto Calvo as Alberto Alegre, an award-winning Spanish-language radio personality known as “el amigo de la raza.” Calvo, who died in 2018 at age 60, spent 40 years on the Texas ...

Founded in 1986, the label was instrumental in the recognition of "gangsta rap" and Southern hip-hop and is currently home to rappers Joey Bada$$ and Kendrick Lamar. By Harley Brown, Billboard The ...

Jake Strain drops his highly anticipated single called “Rap Money”, the normal music Jake spits punchline bars on a boom-bap instrumental; something similar to old-school rap music that you would hear ...

*Just in time for the holidays, Nicki Minaj has supplied her Barbz and Boyz with a new mobile game that allows them to step into her virtual world and even write and record their own raps. Nicki Minaj ...

Kendrick Lamar adds to his collection of Billboard chart records not once, but twice this week as his latest studio album GNX and his SZA collaboration “Luther” become the longest-running No. 1s in ...

Taylor Swift tried to buy back pre-2018 masters from her old label Big Machine Label Group throughout the 2010s, before powerhouse manager Scooter Braun stepped in, bought the label, and sold the ...

Rapper Watsky is taking livestreaming to new heights while using his freestyling skills to raise money for coronavirus relief efforts. Watsky, born George Watsky, has utilized the streaming platform ...

“The first concert I ever went to was, of course, my grandpa Waylon,” Struggle Jennings said on a recent episode of American Songwriter’s Twitch show, Off The Record Live. The grandson of the great ...