Hip-hop celebrated its fiftieth anniversary two years ago, and from its early renegade beginnings to becoming a big fish in the mainstream, many a clever lyric has been turned out by talented rhymers ...

Inspired by a new book tracing four pivotal years in the city’s history, hear a playlist of songs from the dawn of hip-hop that were swirling at the time. By Jonathan Mahler This is Jonathan Mahler. I ...

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 ...

Drake lost, but artistic freedom won last week when a federal court in New York dismissed the rapper's case against UMG Recordings. The decision did more than end one of rap's most publicized legal ...

Good music and a good drink often go hand in hand, but do we ever really stop to appreciate the pairing? We do now, because 2025 has been a banner year for rap music, but it’s also quietly been an ...

He’s getting a second chance to beat the rap. A Brooklyn man convicted of helping a killer pull off a 2016 shooting will get a new trial, after a state appeals court ruled that the judge in the case ...

Though the duo of MC and DJ complement one another’s abilities, upon further inspection, they basically use different methods ...

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was once a rapper named Mr. Cardamom — and his rap career is still past tense. On Oct. 4, attorney Jim Walden, who recently backed out of his own independent ...