February 5, 2025 • Critics point out the apparent hypocrisy of a pro-Black rapper like Kendrick Lamar headlining the Super Bowl halftime show, since the NFL isn't exactly an institution that's ...

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Drake and Kendrick Lamar's explosive feud has captivated the hip-hop world — but as Drake notes in his diss track "Push Ups," the two have an even more tangled, contentious history than meets ...

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G. Dep shares story of his time in prison for murder to aid youth. Trevell Coleman, known professionally in the rap music world as G. Dep, is best known for his hit songs 'Special Delivery' and ...

It’s not very often we give the Grammy Awards credit for getting it right when it comes to rap. Since formally recognizing the genre, the Recording Academy has contributed to a few rap upsets over the ...

LOS ANGELES -- A$AP Rocky 's lawyers will make their case and try to establish a counternarrative Friday at his trial in Los Angeles, where the hip-hop star and ...

Famed music executive Irv Gotti, founder of hip-hop label Murder Inc. which produced superstars including Ashanti and Ja Rule, has died at the age of 54, according to the record’s distributor ...

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His latest album, "GNX," features plenty of references that one could argue are directed at Drake and multiple features from SZA, notably a former flame of the Canadian rap singer. As the Pulitzer ...

By Derrick Bryson Taylor Irv Gotti, who founded the record label Murder Inc. and helped shape the sound of hip-hop and R&B in the late 1990s and early 2000s when he shepherded the careers of Ja ...