This week’s hip-hop releases feature a dense mix of major-label albums, underground projects, and high-profile singles, underscoring the genre’s ongoing embrace of collaboration and cross-genre ...

To celebrate ten years since Drake released Views this week Kenny Allstar goes in the mix with classics, hits and all your ...

Battle rapper Dumbfoundead's memoir 'Spit' documents his rise from age 14 through the L.A. hip-hop underground, capturing the ...

As soon as you hear the opening line, "Oh my God, Becky, look at her butt," you know you're about to listen to "Baby Got Back ...

Dr. Bombay Ice Cream is Snoop Dogg’s hip-hop–inspired brand blending food science, nostalgia, and culture into a modern ...

Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK. Three hours of ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is still making money from his short-lived career as a multilingual rapper, tax filings ...

Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker is one of the most well-respected musicians in the game. Although rock music is his bag, he gets just as much love from the hip-hop community. Most recently, Barker ...

What about you? What’s your take on the “mixtape”? As contemporaries of streaming platforms such as Spotify, Soundcloud and all that jazz, music is more intimate to us digitally and floats around ...

Afrika Bambaataa, a hip-hop pioneer, has died of prostate cancer in Pennsylvania at age 68, according to his lawyer.

Invoking the iconic late '80s Los Angeles Rap outfit NWA, 6WA is produced by BigXthaPlug's 600 Entertainment record label and showcases the label's roster of talented ...

Egyptian Lover's Roland TR-808 drum machine is customized with hieroglyphics and themed patterns Credit: Jay Godwin / LBJ Presidential Library Hip-hop is officially middle-aged, but its mortality is ...