While rap music was born in the 1970s with groups like The Sugarhill Gang, it was codified in the 1980s with outfits like Run-DMC. But it was the 1990s when everything fell into place and the genre ...

Rumors of hip-hop’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. All hip-hop fans need to do is push past the Top 40 bubble and find the under-the- radar artists who are making the rap world so interesting.

The FADER’s longstanding GEN F series profiles the emerging artists you need to know right now. “I wanted to be a mortician,” Milwaukee rapper Myaap says with a soft laugh, sitting slightly hunched ...