At first glance, rapper Shwayze seems a lot like every other rapper to recently hit the club scene. The first single from his new album, "Let It Beat," is a pulsating, rhythmic wasteland of auto-tune ...

Emo rap, a genre defined by its combination of intense emotional expression and the rhythmic flow of Hip Hop beats, has sparked a new wave of creativity in the music industry. In this dynamic ...

Squabbling is a staple of hip-hop music. So is stealing. Except hip-hop artists have never considered it stealing to take riffs and pieces from each other's work. It's a form of creative appropriation ...

Sitting across the table at a Fatburger in L.A.'s Koreatown, Hook looks like the most famous person in the room. With her glittery acrylic nails, the 20-year-old rapper pats down her platinum hair, ...

So much rap music comes out all the time, and especially with frequent surprise releases, it can be hard to keep track of it all. So, as a way to help keep up with all of it, here’s a roundup of the 7 ...

Hip-hop is all about the beats and the flow. For two Rwandan artists, that flow sometimes comes in four languages... (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "NSHAKA") PRO ZED: (Rapping in non-English language). SUMMERS: ...

He never got the headlines his peers did. But real rap fans recognize: Nate Dogg was one of the most important artists to emerge from the West Coast hip-hop boom of the early '90s. His place in music ...

As it did for so many folks I know, hip-hop changed my life. I don’t mean in the “It saved my life” way, but when I was introduced to hip-hop, I fell hook, line and sinker into the ocean and never ...

This winter, coinciding with the release of their revamped CONS sneakers, Converse launches CONS Project: Brooklyn, a series of free music, video and art workshops. The first in a wider initiative of ...