The goal here is to introduce you to names you haven’t heard of, with hopes that you can start a conversation with the young ...

With more than 30 performances over three days, there were plenty of memorable sets at RiverBeat in Memphis. Here are some of ...

Al Kapone and DJ Zirk hosted the Memphis Rap OGz set at RiverBeat, which featured Tom Skeemask, Gangsta Blac, Frayser Boy, ...

Becky G, Billboard's 2026 Latin Women in Music Global Impact Award recipient, on her new album, returning to rap and more in a Billboard cover story.

Across the United States, a generation of young Americans of Indian and Pakistani origin — the children and grandchildren of immigrants — are using Punjabi music as a bridge back to their cultures.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is still making money from his short-lived career as a multilingual rapper, tax filings show. But the 34-year-old Democrat’s meteoric rise as a celebrity politician ...

School Yard Rap partners with schools to deliver hip-hop expanded learning programs. Proposal lists R.A.P. camp and an affinity camp; district says open to all students. Controversy centers on ...

An underperforming California school district is dishing out nearly $300,000 to partner with a group to teach a rap-based curriculum to students, sparking "troubling" concerns, the Justice Department ...

A reader recently asked us which old-school rap songs would never survive a modern label’s legal review, and honestly, the list writes itself. It sounds simple until you actually start answering it.

One of California’s most underperforming school districts is spending nearly $300,000 teaching kids to rap, raising the alarm among DEI watchdogs. The Merced City School District in the Central Valley ...