For the first time in more than 35 years, no rap songs appeared in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. This came after “ Luther,” ...

For the back-to-back Billboard Hot 100 charts this year dated Oct. 25 and Nov. 1, no rap songs appeared in the top 40 — marking the first times since the Feb. 3, 1990 chart that the genre was totally ...

Primarily through direct sampling, hip-hop music provides a blatant tapestry of historical information that the listener can ...

There is no American music without Black roots. From country-western, which draws upon banjo music from Africa, to rock 'n' ...

The Grammy nominations are nearly upon us, and in honor of that, as Uproxx’s resident rap expert, it seems that it makes the ...

and on Friday morning (Oct. 31), the legendary producer shared his thoughts on X. “No rap in top 40 has nothing to do with the music being bad or good,” he wrote without any further elaboration.

However, as Kendrick Lamar and SZA 's “Luther” drops from the charts, history is rewritten: for the first time in over three ...

Is there a double standard when the law comes down hard on narcorridos but gangsta rap that extols crime gets a pass?

The Ghanaian rap scene has always been fierce, a battleground for bars, flow, and pure street authenticity. But while today’s ...

Stacker culled through news and entertainment resources to come up with a list of 20 slang words that originated from or were ...

HeadHuncho Amir Talks his upbringing, New Dallas and '50 Year Run' project. The East Dallas native is our Hip-Hop Rookie of the Month for October.