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.

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.

Sisa Quispe is one of those 10 million. She says rap, hip-hop, trap and even Quechua or Q-pop artists are making names for themselves far beyond the Andes and spreading the Indigenous language.

T.I. talks Trap Music and his key role in turning it into a musical genre. T.I. also offered his Mt. Rushmore of Trap Music: Trap Music originated in the Southern United States, particularly in ...

From the 2024 upload of the snippet “Florida Baby” on TikTok with over 25 million streams on Spotify to the present ...

Future’s music also showcases the current hallmarks of the southern-born, Atlanta-dominated subgenre of hip-hop known as trap, which now permeate nearly every corner of popular music: rattling ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Based in the United Kingdom, Trap Lore Ross wouldn't be the first person you'd expect to be an expert on hip-hop. However, as the saying goes, don't judge a book by its cover.

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 ...