Hip-hop legend Roxanne Shanté, who pushed the art form forward as a teenage battle rapper in the 1980s, is set to become the ...

Will Smith has been getting back to the booth in recent years, with the former “Fresh Prince” finally announcing his official ...

Ahead of the release of his 15th solo album, Vaughaligan "Von Won" Walwyn talks music, politics, and Houston culture.

Members recruit “juvenile and high school age associates” to help them in their violent rivalry with the Trinitarios gang, federal prosecutors said.

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from EST Gee, Nardo Wick, and Will Smith.

Across pop culture, Trump's second term is being met with less opposition than his first. Did everyone just give up?

Beautiful Scars,' a single from 'Based on a True Story,' pokes fun at the actor's choice to reject the starring role in the ...

Hip-hop is well-represented in the 2024 Uproxx Critics Poll, in a year defined as much by conflict as anything else. This is the 7th annual version of the poll, in which nearly 300 music critics from ...

While at school in Rome, he slowly rediscovered his love for hip-hop, crediting his roommates and peers for playing music all the time together — even freestyling over beats with each other.

For hip-hop, this was expressed through the turntable manipulation pioneered by DJ Kool Herc in 1973, when he extended and looped breakbeats to energize crowds. House music’s innovators turned to the ...

With 8 million album sales and 17 Grammys, Kendrick Lamar is headlining this year's Super Bowl halftime show. So who is he? Here's what to know.

If you’ve read a take on the upcoming 67th Grammy Awards, happening this weekend, it may have been something about what a great year it’s been “for women.” And while for me that has a whiff of ...