“Everyone in our circle was listening to a lot of West Coast hip hop, and a lot of that stuff was real minor key and dark ...

RMG PRODUCTIONS, founded by Ray McNeal in New York City, launches with a bold vision—fusing hip hop culture and cinematic storytelling. Rooted in McNeal’s deep passion for film and the streets that ...

Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion ...

Combs, who was not handcuffed, stood with his lawyers as the presiding judge queried whether Combs had read the charges, ...

Country is one of the hottest genres in music, and now labels outside of the old Nashville ... the upcoming country-meets-pop-meets-hip hop singer. “That accessibility has opened people ...

In 1891, an article in the New York Times reported a record setting “enormous” hop harvest in Kent, Washington (Anonymous, 1891a). Kent, aptly named after the renowned English hop-growing region, ...

Instead of accepting the loss like the unbothered rap artist he often claims to be, he has sued his own record label in a misguided ... on Trial about the use of hip-hop lyrics as criminal evidenc ...

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Xowié and Crimeapple. For the first time in what feels like a century, the temperature in NYC broke 80 degrees — time to ...

That came after they lost out on Juan Soto to the Mets in December during a record-setting free agency, a rare defeat to their Queens adversary. They are without starter Luis Gil, last year's ...

Capitol was eager to break into the hip-hop market and, in Hammer, they saw an explosive showman who already had a built-in business model. Hammer signed to the label in a reported $10M joint ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...

The record shop that helped launch Snoop Dogg's career is taking strides to become a West Coast hip-hop museum. VIP Records, the Long Beach, California, record shop that played a pivotal role in ...