Jersey club music has been around since the late ‘90s. A derivation of East Coast club music inspired by Baltimore club’s blend of house music and hip-hop, its bouncier cousin from Newark came ...

Established in October, a group of first-year students set out to create Hip-Hop Club — a place for students to come together and learn about the genre in an engaging way. According to Hip-Hop Club’s ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This image is from the official album cover for "Club Godfather," owned by Warner Records. Late in ...

One night in August, a nondescript metal venue in suburban New Jersey, just north of Newark, is the epicenter of one of the most exciting trends in rap right now. At first, the teens who fill the ...

Metro Boomin’s 2022 single ‘Trance’ has become the latest song to join Spotify’s Billions Club, marking his fifth track to ...

Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song written by Vivian Medithi and Nadine Smith. Chicago hip-hop has long been intertwined with the city’s rich history of dance music, from the ...

When you think about love in rap, Common's "The Light" is an essential example. From his album "Like Water for Chocolate", Common raps heartfelt lines of devotion over a mesmerizing J Dilla beat, ...

Classical instruments and orchestrations aren’t unknown in hip-hop music, but nobody mingles those sounds like the Illharmonic Orchestra. On Nov. 22, the New York-based ensemble is playing the Shubert ...

We know the familiar locations—in the studio or the party, on the freeway or the corner—but rap’s visual art has been on the green for a while now. Rap has an interesting relationship with golf that ...

But one rapper who has long feuded with a fellow 2000s music star says he thinks they’re bad for the culture — and for ...