The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Ab-Soul, Ferg, and Cordae. The past few weeks have featured a glut of new hip-hop, so even though this week slows things down a ...

Generative artificial intelligence is seeping deeper into our cultural fabric by the day. In just two years, AI videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti have evolved from poorly developed nightmare fuel ...

Legends of rap, soul and hip-hop, as well as some up-and-coming artists, will be on Reno-Tahoe stages as winter turns to spring. Here's the lineup.

“The smooth criminal on beat breaks / Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes,” rapped Nas on his 1994 classic “N.Y. State of Mind.” Like other underground genres that hit their stride in the ...

While deejaying his sister’s birthday party, DJ Kool Herc tried something unheard of at the time: He extended an instrumental break from James Brown’s “Give It Up or Turnit a Loose” and began rapping ...

Rian Wyld turned personal tragedy into purpose. After losing her brother Ryan to gun violence, she took his name and built a fearless career. Before she was Rian Wyld, she was a young girl in ...

There’s a raw energy in the air—a palpable, jittery anticipation as the old guard of hip-hop production gets tossed aside by the relentless force of technological innovation and cultural upheaval.

“I don’t ONLY like to listen to one type of music,” says Resavoir frontman Will Miller. So of course his new work is a blend of genres. Resavoir started as a musician collective, but during the ...

Hip-hop is more than just a genre; it’s a cultural movement that has shaped music, fashion, art, and societal conversations. Over the years, hip-hop artists have pushed boundaries, created ...

In the early 1990s, bass drummer Derrick Moss, snare drummer Lumar LeBlanc and other members of the Young Olympia Brass Band decided to split off to form a new brass band: The Soul Rebels. They wanted ...

Hip-hop, which emerged from the streets of New York City in the late 1970s, has grown into a global cultural phenomenon. Its influence extends far beyond its own genre, permeating various musical ...