Shante gained local notoriety at “Roxanne Wars,” series of hip-hop battles in the mid-1980s. yielding rap music’s first “diss ...

Grandmaster Caz, Roxanne Shante and Kool Moe Dee are being honored at the 2024 Hip Hop Grandmaster Awards for their cultural ...

Those are the songs we want to learn more about on a new World Cafe feature called Backtracking. The premise is simple: We'll ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT RAP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

While Hot Rap Songs was originally conceived as a bi-weekly sales chart, the rapid popularity and interest in the genre forced a change to a weekly sales recap before the chart reached its first ...

It’s always awkward telling people what I do for a living. I’m a rapper. I also work as a professor of hip-hop. I work at the ...

She led a series of well-known rap feuds and rivalries called the Roxanne Wars in the 1980s. The immediacy with which artists are now able to release songs directly on social media, even before ...

Rakim Allah, legendary as half of Eric B. & Rakim, was born William Michael Griffin Jr. on Long Island, New York. As a ...

Featuring interviews from A-list talent like Killer Mike, Will.i.am, Monie Love, Ice-T, Roxanne Shante, MC Lyte and many more, the series will paint a portrait of the unique relationship between ...

In every musician's career, there are the songs that stand out among the rest. Perhaps it's a song that changed everything for them, the song they grew to love, or the song that was the hardest to ...

New rap categories In August 2024, music producer 9th Wonder proposed ... The hip-hop careers of artists like Roxanne Shanté, Run-DMC and Ice Cube all began when they were teens.