There’s something like a renaissance, we’ve been told, in Los Angeles hip-hop right now. The success of good kid, m.A.A.d. city sparked renewed interest in hip-hop’s second-oldest metropolis.

The shooting death of Migos rapper Takeoff on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022, sent shockwaves throughout the hip-hop community and popular culture. “If you are for gangster rap, you can’t also be for Black,” ...

Guns are recurring characters in American life. They sit front and center in some versions of rap music, whether to be glorified or denounced (Nas’ “I Gave You Power” comes to mind). They play key ...

For a comedy about extremely geeky and awkward people, HBO’s “Silicon Valley” features some of the coolest music on television, and you often notice it most when the show ends and the credits roll.

“This is black superhero music,” Jay-Z proclaims in his excellent new “Roc Boys.” That means live horns, grooving on some kind of Afro-beat riff over Seventies rumble-in-the-jungle funk, while Jay-Z ...

Gangster Doodle is the anonymous artist behind Gangster Doodles, a collection of cute pop culture doodles drawn on Post-It notes and compiled into one massive tome. He'll follow that up with the ...

Drake unleashed his "Taylor Made Freestyle" on Instagram on Friday, April 19 Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022 and his work has ...