Hip-hop legends of "Rapper's Delight" fame, the Sugarhill Gang, performed at Nashville's intimate AB Hillsboro Village venue. The still touring touring quartet is four decades removed from an era ...

If a rapper were only to be known for one song, it’s hard to beat “Gangsta’s Paradise.” Coolio’s signature No. 1 smash in 1995 was voted the best single of the year in the Village Voice’s “Pazz & Jop” ...

J'oni Travis, at right, pleads guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and felonious assault at a hearing Thursday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. Three years ago, 16-year-old Cornelius ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – A Syracuse man’s rap music video played for a jury showed him raising his arm and miming firing a gun. The lyrics included a line that a gang expert says refers to a rival gang and a ...

To everyone worried that UChicago will remain a nerd school until the end of time, fear not—Forrest Stuart, a UChicago professor in the Sociology Department, was recently interviewed by music media ...

His goes by the name “Izo 5 Segonn” — Izo Five Seconds — and he rules one of Haiti’s poorest slums and most notorious kidnapping lairs, Village of God, where five Haitian police officers were killed ...

In 1979 the rap group Sugarhill Gang was formed, and in that same year, they became one of the most talked about groups in the genre of hip-hop. Their hit song “Rapper’s Delight” was released that ...

Leonard Pitts is one of my favorite journalists, a foot soldier in print, but I found it difficult to reconcile this with his take on rap music, specifically the “gangsta” rap artists and their ...

ATLANTA -- Young Thug is a burgeoning rapper known for pushing the envelope, both musically and as a fashion icon. He became an influential voice in his generation of artists -- blowing up on the ...

When he was 19, James Broadnax jotted down rap lyrics, thoughts and even job leads in a notebook that would become evidence ...