Kendrick Lamar during a 2018 concert in Los Angeles. His feud with Drake prompted Questlove to declare hip-hop "dead." (Richard Shotwell / Invision / Associated Press) Questlove, the accomplished ...

The U.S. Attorney's Office put the Erie gang 4-Nation in the same category as the Mafia when the office in May charged 22 of the accused gang members with violating the federal RICO Act, aimed at ...

Hip-hop did not become the worldwide phenomenon it is today by being unorganized. In order to bring together all the elements of hip-hop culture, Disc jockey Afrika Bambaataa founded the first hip-hop ...

The Roots and Live Nation Urban have announced a new event for next year that will be one of the hottest tickets around. The inaugural Roots Picnic: Hip-Hop is the Love of My Life event will take ...

The Annual Neruda Poetry Festival celebrates Chicano oral tradition and flor y canto (flower and song) — meaning a flowery, rhythmic style of reciting poetry. Each year, visiting artists define the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kendrick Lamar will pop out on the NFL's biggest stage next year: The Grammy winner will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show in New Orleans. “Rap music is still the ...

An elegiac retelling of rap’s origins, Hip-Hop Is History also ends with a sense of hope. Buffy (Darren Robinson) of the Fat Boys in Chicago, 1985. This Juneteenth featured, among other festivities, a ...

Federal prosecution of the 58-defendant 4-Nation racketeering case is largest case of its kind in Erie U.S. Attorney's Office says accused gang leader's rap videos help incriminate him Defense says ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kendrick Lamar will pop out on the NFL's biggest stage next year: The Grammy winner will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show in New Orleans. The NFL, Apple Music and ...