Several MCs including 50 Cent, Missy Elliot and DMX went through some incredibly difficult times to achieve success.

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Fat Joe is close friends with LL Cool J - but the rapper still gets starstruck around the hip hop legend. "LL Cool J is my ...

In “Straight Loops, Light & Soul,” a project evoking Roy DeCarava’s Harlem jazz pictures and the music of J Dilla, Williams ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Jack Harlow, Doja Cat, and Wale. First things first: Jack Harlow and Doja Cat make a cute couple in the video for Jack’s new ...

Fat Joe is close friends with LL Cool J — but the rapper still gets starstruck around the hip hop legend. “LL Cool J is my ...

Meet the buzzy folk-pop songwriter, plus a dancey noise band, a dexterous Dominican M.C., a new generation of SoundCloud rappers and more.

The Port Arthur legend celebrated his birthday in style, unveiling the Crown Royal x PURPLE BRAND Rodeo Capsule Collection—a tribute to his iconic Black Heritage Night look.

But the producer initially rolled his eyes at the ex-jock's rap ... cool, but you got more work to do,'" Davis says, laughing. "But I wasn't afraid anymore." Around the same time, Davis founded ...

Kendrick Lamar and Mustard did this with the record “ Not Like Us, ” which is currently one of the most popular songs in the world. Curiously enough, throughout music history, most of the songs that ...

The rapper addressed his followers on a livestream and claimed that estranged partner and singer Halle Bailey had not been allowing him to visit their son Rapper DDG, during a livestream ...