A reader recently asked us which old-school rap songs would never survive a modern label’s legal review, and honestly, the list writes itself. It sounds simple until you actually start answering it.

Initially, if you wanted to hear the sound of hip-hop, cassette tapes recorded at jams and concerts were your best bet. These legendary tapes circulated far and wide, and they were many people's first ...

LOS ANGELES — Lil Baby, Roddy Ricch, Megan Thee Stallion and DaBaby have blazed the Billboard charts, but Grammy voters gave the young hip-hop stars the cold shoulder in the best rap album category, ...

Two rappers from Pennsylvania have made a name for themselves on TikTok with old school hip-hop flows and beats that sound like they came straight out of the 1980s. However, Joey Valence and Brae ...

Talib Kweli has been writing and performing for almost 20 years now — as a solo act and as half of well-received duos that reached a broad audience — and for much of that time he's been pinned with a ...

“Imagine if a blue collar or middle-class sitcom dad … was cool enough to make rap music, that’s what I would be,” Tyrone Thomas, aka Klazik, told The Gazette. It’s a fitting description for the ...

Students packed into the Haymarket Theatre in Squires Student Center Thursday evening for an opportunity to hear rap icon Darryl "DMC" McDaniels speak. McDaniels, currently on his History of Hip Hop ...