As we enter the new year, Skillz once again recaps the previous 365 days in the latest installment of his annual series "2017 Rap Up." This year, Skillz grabs 50 Cent’s "Big Rich Town" beat, a.k.a the ...

When writers used to ask if rock was dead, it wasn’t actually a question of life or death. The real issue was power; what was meant by “rock” wasn’t rock music, but the genre’s imperial stature ...

On the strength of staggering streaming numbers, hip-hop officially became the dominant genre in America for the first time ever this year. The metrics finally caught up to the zeitgeist, leading to a ...

(AllHipHop News) The Art of Rap festival is back and the line up is jam-packed full of the finest in classic Hip-Hop. The Art of Rap festival was founded by lyricist and actor Ice-T and Mick Benson ...

Rap music may seem synonymous with black culture, but if you look beyond the surface to its earliest incarnation, you'd find that the genre was cultivated in large part with the assistance of Latin ...

Rap’s in a good place in 2017, animated by a series of intensely fascinating figures. Young Thug is the moment’s experimentalist; the fiercely heady Vince Staples is rap’s chief fatalist; Kamaiyah and ...

Uncle Murda (aka Lenny Grant) is back to deliver his own recap of 2017. The Brooklyn rapper dropped a nine-minute long “Rap-Up 2017” banger chock full of snarky remarks and biting commentary. Unlike ...

Hip-hop dominated music streaming in 2017, leading to some eye-popping record deals for rising stars — $8 million for Lil Pump, $10 million for XXXTentacion before his death, another $15 million for ...

In his short life, MIKE has lived in New Jersey, Hackney, Essex, and Brooklyn. This year, he was separated from his mother, who was in Nigeria dealing with visa issues. On May God Bless Your Hustle, ...

There's a saying that you should always expect the unexpected, but many rap fans didn't know what the writing on the wall was coming into 2017. 2016 had been a landmark year for rap music, with a slew ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Streaming changed things. 2017 was the year that rap once again reaffirmed its stranglehold on the collective imagination of ...