Hip-hop at it's core is lyrics on a beat, with both being vital for the final product. Throughout the genre's history, there have been some truly incredible beats that turned producers into stars, and ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, best known by his stage name, Nas, is widely regarded as ...

Tekashi 69 x Bobby Shmurda type beat by Dices. A hard trap instrumental perfect for rappers and artists. Check out this hard ...

As Josh noted in his Friday recap, this past week’s Community was delightful on several levels, but Dean Pelton’s opening rap (above) and the credits scene between Vince Gilligan and Gina Gershon ...

NEW ORLEANS -- For the first few moments onstage, young Govenor Reiss -- his stage identity is simply Govenor -- looks like many a rapper grown too hard, too fast on the streets of New Orleans. His ...

Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song. My first encounter with Baby Osama was hearing her rap over a Jersey club flip of “Over My Dead Body.” When I interviewed the Bronx rapper last ...

Salih Williams — producer of Mike Jones, Slim Thug, and Paul Wall's "Still Tippin'," — is a criminally underrated musician. For the latest Behind the Beat, Thomas Hobbs tempted Williams away from ...

A hard-hitting trap beat, inspired by Lil Xan, Future, and Trippie Redd. Perfect for your next rap hit! Florida boat builder ...

First Rap Genius helped the Web understand rap. Then the startup set out to annotate everything, from literature and history to sports and film. Now with 40 million in new funding from Dan Gilbert and ...

Knowledge the Pirate counts himself as a member of the rapper Roc Marciano’s inner circle. Alongside KA, who we recently nominated as recording the best New York City rap album of the year, Knowledge ...

The country-rap collaboration, which features Bailey Zimmerman, is the first song to rule both the Hot Country Songs & Hot Rap Songs charts. By Trevor Anderson BigXthaPlug lights up Billboard’s charts ...

Johnny Paul Bass, a former Shasta County Most Wanted fugitive who also twice beat a 2013 murder rap, is prison-bound. In what was an unusually quick turnaround, Bass, 54, was sentenced Monday by ...