Known for its dark beats and boundary-pushing artists, the city has produced some of the most influential figures in rap.

It is thus unsurprising that on the genre's 50th anniversary, Memphis rap is a dominant force as sampled archive and fecund present. After all, few can deny their mother and expect to live forever.

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Memphis, Tennessee, is one of them. It’s brimming with talented musicians and storytellers who have innovated rap to reflect the city’s own history and culture. Regional dialects, lingo and ...

Memphis is no stranger to big-time rap acts. Thirty years after Three 6 Mafia emerged in the 1990s, the revered rap group are still getting their songs sampled and referenced in new songs from ...

Born on Aug. 7, 1979, Gangsta Boo was raised in Whitehaven and joined Memphis rap collective Three 6 Mafia as a 15-year-old MC phenom in 1994. She turned heads with her work on the group's classic ...

The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...

Zarshenas, wary of the $10,000 fine, bagged up his remaining stock of rap tapes and tossed them in a dumpster. Dedicated Memphis heads search high and low for these tapes; many have been ...

Denzel Washington is apparently a big fan of contemporary Memphis rap. According to rapper/actor A$AP Rocky – who stars with Washington in Spike Lee’s upcoming ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Memphis rap artist Moneybagg Yo is hosting a "Feed the People" food giveaway this weekend. The event is happening on November 9 at 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. It is a free ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Memphis rap sensation GloRilla is set to kick off a U.S. tour, hitting 22 cities in two months. The Glorious Tour, named after GloRilla's latest album, is scheduled to begin on ...