Rap music was invented in the early 1970s. According to lore, the musical style was first on display at a party in the fall—family and friends gathering around the turntables to mark the important ...

Shawn Jay of the popular early 2000s rap group Field Mob announced on social media that he is battling stage 4 cancer.

Lord Sear, longtime DJ and hip-hop radio personality who worked closely with Eminem on his Shade 45 channel, has died. He was ...

EJAE, winner of the award for music (original song) for “Golden” from “K-pop Demon Hunters,” poses in the press room at the ...

Jorjiana shares the stories behind some of her biggest songs, including “ILBB2 (We Love BB2),” Exit Row and more.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These tracks reveal how rap artists channel grief, trauma, and heartbreak into emotional storytelling. Artists like Nas, DMX, and ...

A rap song inspired by the anime series Jujutsu Kaisen is going viral on TikTok as a meme about scoring big. Here's what you ...

The year was 1988. Hip-hop music was really taking shape thanks to big name artists like Run-DMC, The Beastie Boys, and LL Cool J. It was a year before the Grammy Awards would hand out the first ...

"Golden" later won best original song at the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 15; 'KPop Demon Hunters' also won best ...

Welcome to New Music Friday, NPR Music's podcast dedicated to sharing the best albums out each week. We listen to dozens of new releases in advance, identify the ones we think you need to hear, and ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...