When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...

Some believe the 1990s was the golden era of rap music. Though the genre was created in the late 1970s in the parks of New York City and later honed in the 1980s thanks to groups like Run-DMC and the ...

Hip-hop is no longer solely youth culture; it’s just culture, with cross-generational scenes full of artists intent on capturing their era’s zeitgeist. But Raekwon The Chef’s latest solo album, The ...

A lot was made of hip-hop's 50th anniversary during Saturday night's New York State of Mind Tour stop at Target Center. It was about time more was made of the genre's veterans, too — acts like the ...

In 2015, Los Angeles rap crew Villain Park became one of our favorite new acts. The formula was simple—gritty beats and classic rap style that sounded more like Lootpack than Lil Uzi—but they brought ...