Having won a defamation lawsuit against Ohio's Adams County sheriff's deputies, Afroman details the whole sordid event with "Batteram Hymn of the Police Whistleblower." ...

A Bay Area rapper has ignited a firestorm after a viral clip of his latest track surfaced that includes calling Adolf Hitler and Jeffrey Epstein “heaven-sent.” The rapper, LaRussell — real name ...

Michael Lawrence Tyler, a rapper known by his stage name as Mystikal, faces a decades-long prison sentence after pleading guilty to third-degree rape on Tuesday. Tyler, 55, appeared this week in a ...

Hundreds lined up outside a Texas city lounge on Tuesday, March 17, after a popular Hip-Hop/Rap star announced a surprise event. The musician was in town for the 2026 South by Southwest (SXSW) ...

The crowd at the Dolby Theatre rose to their feet as the cast of "Sinners" and many other musicians and dancers performed the ...

Anne Hathaway took the presenter stage with fashion icon Anna Wintour, the designer that inspired Meryl Streep's character in "The Devil Wears Prada." ...

Rappers are banding together to advocate for a Texas man set to be executed next month largely due to his incriminating song lyrics. James Broadnax, a Black man, was only 19 when he was accused of ...

The KISS frontman slammed the institution for including rap and hip-hop artists: "I don't come from the ghetto, it doesn't speak my language." By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large Gene Simmons says ...

Kendrick Lamar is victorious in the Best Rap Album category again, thanks to his excellent 2024 record GNX. The rapper took home the prize in a field featuring Clipse (Let God Sort Em Out), GloRilla ...

What's going on with rap? After celebrating 50 years of legacy in 2023 with marquee moments like the Hip Hop 50 multi-headliner concert at Yankee Stadium, plus Kendrick Lamar's historic run – capped ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the annals of recorded music as collectors’ items, nothing stands out quite like “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” the Wu Tang ...

**For clarity, rap and hip-hop are used interchangeably throughout the article, as both represent the same space in music charts.** Additionally, in mid-September 2025, only four hip-hop songs were on ...