If you listen to rap music, or if you watch professional basketball, you know that one of the core experiences associated with both is hating. Not in a malicious sense, of course — more a petty one.

This month YouTube’s most successful stationary mic platform On The Radar Radio savvily diversified. While the channel started with more boilerplate interview and trending news coverage, the channel’s ...

The next chapter of Atlanta rap is shaping up to be something of a return to form. Projects from Metro-Boomin and Anycia, as well as a crop of young rappers, are reprising the “Old Atlanta” feel. In ...

While plenty of energy was spent this year debating whether or not rap was still at the forefront of pop culture as it reached its fiftieth anniversary, there was no shortage of exciting new music to ...

Alongside DJ E-Z Rock, the Harlem legend scored big party rap hits in the late 1980s. 12 hours ago The latest NBA player — or former one — to drop bars is none-other-than LiAngelo Ball, who pulled up ...

Generally, in this current wave of Milwaukee rap, Auto-Tuned harmonies and more straightforward raps are kept apart. But on Funny $money and Trapbaby’s new mixtape ...

As hip-hop celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, headlines swirled around its potentially diminishing force as a commercial juggernaut: The first half of the year didn’t see a rap song or album ...