What was that dynamic between gangster rap and underground hip-hop back then? Imani: Gangster rap was well-established and poppin’ way before The Chronic came out. It was so predominant.

Dive into the world of alternative Hip Hop and explore how it relates to rap and R&B.

Hip-hop regenerates constantly, and yet there has been an almost despotic grip on the throne (s) for some time. Kendrick Lamar’s war of words with Drake took up a lot of oxygen in rap this year.

BOSTON — As Hip Hop celebrates its 50 years of influence on music and culture, UMass Boston gives us local context with the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive, housed in the Joseph P. Healy Library ...

The “underground” has become such a coherent entity that it’s basically now a commercialized sideshow to the mainstream, requiring its own cast of marketable (and hateable) personas.

From the 2 Live Crew and Slip-N-Slide Records to women in bass and the jook movement, Miami has contributed a lot to hip-hop's evolution.

Just-Ice didn't do rap beef. He would shoot people. In the 80s. Watch the exclusive convo with The Bronx emcee that says he invented Gangster Rap.

Representing the next waves, including early gangster rap, Southern hip-hop and 21st-century pop crossovers, were artists like Queen Latifah, Big Boi of Outkast and Missy Elliott, who performed ...

According to a post to his Instagram profile on Monday, Oct. 14, the underground hip-hop legend died unexpectedly on Saturday.

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.

Meet the Artists Reinventing Hip Hop on YouTube and TikTok Rap was born in New York City; its current hub is Atlanta. The next big scene? Milwaukee, where a new generation is taking creative control.