This isn’t to disparage rap or spoken word poetry (whose complex rhyming schemes can amaze) or those who wish to writer verse ...

From medieval cisterns to Mediterranean trade, the artist uncovers the past through evocative text, immersive sound and ...

And in this case, we wanted to share three rap music one-hit wonders from the 90s that may just inspire you to write your own rhymes. “Insane In The Brain” by Cypress Hill from ‘Black Sunday ...

Still, I stood on that stage and read my poems and felt something shift. There was this energy in the room, people were listening, really listening, and that’s when I realized the power of words. What ...

There is rap beef in hip-hop that everyone is tantalized by. Think Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake.The two hip-hop heavyweights went toe-to-toe last spring in a rap battle that had hip-hop fans on edge ...

“As I evolved as an artist, I stopped wanting to be just a ‘great rapper’” Samara Cyn tells NME, “I wanted to make really good music.”It’s in part what’s responsible for her ...

When asked what she brings to the rap game as part of this year's XXL Freshman Class, Scar says, "I'm bringing a realness. I'm bringing the pain, and I'm bringing the ugly truth to XXL." ...

Against a tide of weariness, I have two pieces of advice on this Earth Day, embedded in National Poetry Month: start a garden, and read or write a poem, writes Tess Taylor.

When literature Professor Willy Maley was diagnosed with incurable prostate cancer last year, he immediately reduced his word count. “As soon as I got the news, I decided all my essays were ...

At a time when so much Black popular culture was driven by a sense of safe accessibility, Run-D.M.C. led a wave of rap renegades.

Such complicated reservations call up more recent controversies over “ghetto English” in rap and whether white rappers have any right to the form. The reaction to reading dialect poetry is less ...