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 ...

Common performs on Sept. 11, 2024, in Atlanta. Paras Griffin/Getty Images by A.D. Carson, University of Virginia It’s always ...

Those are the songs we want to learn more about on a new World Cafe feature called Backtracking. The premise is simple: We'll give artists a long list of prompts they can choose from. Then, they'll ...

The Police didn’t quite fit any of the genres that were prevailing in music at the time when they ... because the single “Roxanne” broke through on both sides of the Atlantic, fitting ...

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 ...

Some believe the 1990s was the golden era of rap music. Though the genre was created in the late 1970s in the parks of New York City and later honed in the 1980s thanks to groups like Run-DMC and ...

A ranking of the top songs based on streaming and sales activity from within the country- as tracked by Luminate. The ranking is based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams ...

Newly discovered ads featuring Zappa and The Mothers of Invention from the LA Free Press. Some, if not all of these, were ...

The single, from Stefani’s debut 2004 album Love. Angel. Music. Baby., received a 2005 Grammy nomination for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. Prior to the 2010s streaming takeover, it was a ...