Thanks to great new singles from Beyoncé and Drake, it’s become the summer of hip hop with house beats. Larger-than-life figures like those two have the power to dominate the conversation and steer ...

When Fenix Flexin and Tyga worked together in a studio this summer, Tyga realized they had independently landed on a similar Eighties sound. By then, Fenix, the Los Angeles rapper and Shoreline Mafia ...

It’s a simple editing trick, of course — in the original video, filmed in 2016 at a wedding in Israel, a live band is playing a Hasidic tune. But the near-perfect synchronization of bass and bochurs ...

Rap and hip-hop music originated in the early 1970s as a minimalist sound that was contradictory to the formulaic and heavily orchestrated music coming from dance clubs and house parties. Since its ...

Have you ever been totally faded in the club? Not falling over, falling asleep drunk – glassy-eyed and slow-responsive, nodding along listlessly to the beat, more fatigued than fried. You can reach ...

As the 35th Annual Dove Awards proceeded on with its many categories and winners, a historical moment for rapper KJ-52 and Tooth Nail BEC Recordings came when the talented rapper 146;s name was ...

Everyone knows that one of the most important aspects of a party is having great music that can get people on the dance floor. Hip-hop's inception came from house parties hosted in the Bronx in ...

A number of top hip-hop and DJ/electronica acts will descend on Los Angeles for the Audiotistic festival, to be held Oct. 18 at the L.A. Sports Arena. The event will feature performances by OutKast… ...

Sylvio MüllerWhen and where was Brazilian hip-hop born?Hip-hop has now become one of Brazil's representative musical cultures ...

A party in a Bronx recreation room 50 years ago, Aug. 11, 1973, is being heralded as the start of the now-global phenomenon that is hip-hop. The funny thing is, the way some describe that ...