Will Smith’s new album is looking to be more maligned than his 2022 Oscars slap. On Friday, the Fresh Prince himself released ...
After a 20-year hiatus from releasing albums, Will Smith made his comeback Friday—and wastes no time rapping about slapping ...
“There ain’t a person alive that be matching the vibe/And it honestly ain’t even fair,” he raps over intense drumming powered by the traditional chenda from the southwest Indian state of ...
At the March 4, 2025, meeting of the Miami-Dade County Commission, Commissioner Keon Hardemon failed to win the votes needed to rename some Liberty City streets after rap and hip-hop lyrics.
Did “Alright” Win Any Awards? Yes, “Alright” won two Grammy Awards in 2016 for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song. It also won several other awards, including a BET Award nomination ...
Kendrick Lamar is a rapper, songwriter, and record producer widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of his generation. Lamar’s music explores themes of race, identity, social ...
Angie Stone, the Grammy-nominated US hip hop pioneer whose group The Sequence was one of the first all-female groups to record a rap song, has died in a car crash. Stone, 63, known for the 2001 ...
Gunn's work can be seen as a convincing argument against taking lyrics at face value. Though rap can be a lens into what is happening on the streets, as both the news of the ghetto and first ...
The best rap beats are nerdy as hell. Every drum placement, every melody, every chopped-up sample sends me down a YouTube rabbit hole trying to piece together the way a producer contorts and ...
Some other thoughts and questions: Is it time for Tyler to rap over other producers’ beats? One of the most electric moments of the night was Tyler’s late-show performance of “That Guy ...