The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Rico Nasty, Samara Cyn, and Sexyy Red. With summer inching closer, rap and hip-hop are back outside — so to speak. New York ...

Hip-hop is at times accepted as synonymous with rap. But the reality is nuanced, says Carson and suggests a metaphor: "Imagine you have a multi-car garage. Then rap would be one of the cars that's ...

Hey, young world. Here's a story about one measure of the distance hip-hop has traveled in its 50 years. Once upon a time, not long ago, to paraphrase a great rap storyteller, an 11-year-old in ...

While this infamous party has its place in hip-hop history, the roots of rap extend back much further, spanning the Atlantic. Dating back to the 13th century, storytellers called “griots ...