SUMMERS: Briana Younger is a hip-hop writer. I sat down with her and NPR hip-hop editor, Sheldon Pearce, to talk about the birth of trap and the rise of Southern rap.

An oral language rich in history from Peru is having a moment, with artists using it in hip hop, rap, trap, and pop music.

Don’t miss the “Rap Trap: Hip-Hop on Trial” premiere, set for Thursday, Feb. 23. The ABC News Studios’ hour-long production centers around the arrest and indictment of Young Thug (Jeffery ...

Here are the newest hip-hop projects to drop this week, including releases from ILoveMakonnen, SahBabii, Joey Trap and more.

Pianist and keyboardist Robert Glasper is a man of many hats. When he appears at Wolf Trap on Sept. 9, however, he’ll be wearing only one. “Well, I’m marking the 50th anniversary of hip-hop ...

When McKinley “Mac” Phipps got his big break in hip-hop, the rapper had big dreams. But years later his lyrics would help put him behind bars for more than two decades.

But now there is also rap, hip-hop, and trap performed in Quechua, thanks to young artists who have chosen to both spotlight the sound, and use it to call out injustices to Quechua people.

How do you plan to introduce and popularize this genre among diverse audiences? Afro-Trap maybe relatively new but we have hip-hop, the mother that created the genre.

The journeys of these thriving Atlanta executives and musicians, like those of successful hip-hop artists who started out on the streets of poor Black neighborhoods in other cities, are compelling.

This month marks the 50th anniversary of hip hop. You can celebrate with the “Masters of the Mic: Hip Hop 50 Tour” at Wolf Trap in Virginia on Thursday.

T.I. told CNN that in addition to the the hip-hop celebration, this year also marks a pivotal anniversary for trap music, a subgenre of hip-hop birthed in the South in the 1990s.

On this date in Hip Hop History, the self-proclaimed “King of the South” released his sophomore album aptly titled Trap Muzik on Atlantic Records in conjunction with Tip’s newly formed Grand ...