the week’s most popular current rap songs across all genres, ranked by streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by luminate, radio airplay audience impressions as measured ...

Sincere Jazmin was only 16 years old when he was shot and killed by another teen at a bus stop in Queens, N.Y. on March 26. The young man was an aspiring rap artist who went by the name, “Sdot ...

If women’s rap had been confined by the commercial impulse to treat it as a sideshow, then this new wave of artists presents a kind of revenge for the years of trash talk and diminishment — a ...

For decades, conflict has been a part of hip-hop culture. The ongoing diss-track battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake proves how much digital space has transformed rap beefs into an industry.

With songs like Don't Say Nuthin', freestyles like New Year's At Jay Dee's, I essentially invented mumble rap, where you go for many bars without saying any words. And when I did it, it came from ...

The Restoring Artists Protection Act, the RAP Act, is a proposal to limit the use of lyrics in federal criminal proceedings, lyrics from songs like this one called "Anybody" by Young Thug and ...

Rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar, as well as Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj, have spent the first half of 2024 beefing. The fact that both rap battles were fueled by accusations of sex ...

Music industry beef isn't confined to just rap and hip hop. Artists from pop, rock, and country have used music and lyrics to deliver their devastating blows, so let's explore some of the most ...

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.

Cole is one of the rap game’s certified feature killers, and his presence pushed Drake to talk his shit, which always feels like overdoing it in the best way possible. — A.G. Ken Carson ...

The Restoring Artistic Protection Act (RAP Act) seeks to protect artists from the the use of their lyrics against them as evidence in court. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...

Top music industry leaders, including the Recording Academy, are backing the Rap Act -- a bill that would limit the use of rap lyrics as evidence in federal court. ABC News. Video. Live.