Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hip-hop legend Nas reflects on the 50-year history of rap music, how successful his career has been, his recent creative freedom, ...

An elegiac retelling of rap’s origins, Hip-Hop Is History also ends with a sense of hope. Buffy (Darren Robinson) of the Fat Boys in Chicago, 1985. This Juneteenth featured, among other festivities, a ...

Though they might not always be as heralded, women have played crucial roles in some of the most impactful rap battles in history. Now, in a debut book from veteran culture writer Brooklyn White-Grier ...

In this Slate Plus exclusive, host Chris Molanphy welcomes hip-hop historian and author Dan Charnas to break down the evolution of rap beefs from The Bridge Wars to Kendrick vs. Drake. Charnas ...

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 ...