On his debut album, the Brooklyn rapper hopes to smooth a path forward for the city’s ascendant hip-hop scene, even as it draws criticism amid a rise in gun violence. Fivio Foreign hopes to become ...

Rap music started off as a genre made by Black people, for Black people, meant to serve as an outlet to express struggles surrounding race in America. White people refused to listen to it for that ...

The post Eric Adams, Who Just Learned What Drill Rap Is, Wants to Ban It From Social Media appeared first on Consequence. New York City mayor Eric Adams wants to ban drill rap videos from social media ...

When Fredo Santana died in early 2018, the hip hop community reacted with an outpouring of tributes. However, for many consumers of mainstream rap, this dramatic show of support for the Chicago rapper ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Music executives say Chalim Perry, better known as his stage name Sha EK, is an emerging voice in the New York City drill music scene. And he's only 19, one of the youngest artists ...

In February, Mayor Adams blamed drill music for some violent crime and called for the removal of drill videos from social media. Then he backtracked, met with some drill rappers, and said he’d work ...

Last week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams fired his first salvo in the ongoing war on drill music in the city. The former NYPD officer told a group of reporters that his son, a Roc Nation employee, ...

The sound of drill is the brazen brrrrrap of street-level rap over the past decade. It’s the unsettling, aestheticized sound of gunplay evoked by spraying hi-hats, double-tapped rhyme blasts, and a ...

Almost two years ago, Kanye West dropped a remixed version of the infectious drill rap single “I Don’t Like,” changing the life of its original owner, a then-rising 16-year-old street rapper named ...