Shaquille O'Neal's first rap release since the '90s has arrived, and it's a collaboration with emerging hip-hop artist Blackway called "King Talk." Produced by Koko, the song features a full verse ...

The Grammys finally unveiled the Best Rap Song category for the 46th Grammy Awards in 2004. The first honor went to Eminem for his diamond-selling track “Lose Yourself,” marking his ninth ...

In 2016, as "mumble rap" was being used as a slur for the first time ... He didn't have verses, he had mantras — like on ...

On March 11, 2025, BTS' Min Yoongi, aka SUGA, made history as his song Haegeum extended its record as the first and only Korean rap and hip-hop song to surpass 500 million streams. This is a ...

The result was Rapper’s Delight, with its iconic intro: ‘I said a hip hop/the hippie the hippie/ to the hip hip hop/and you don’t stop…’ It was the first commercial rap song and a mega ...

By Alex Williams J.B. Moore, an advertising man from suburban Long Island who wrote the lyrics to one of rap’s first hits — Kurtis Blow’s 1979 novelty song, “Christmas Rappin’” — and ...

The caption on the tweet read: "Playboi Carti’s 'MUSIC' will sell 302K first week & debut at #1 🔥. It will become the biggest Rap debut of 2025 & his career." Meanwhile, a Billboard report ...

Moore was a key figure in the then-burgeoning rap genre, writing and producing hits ... who came up with the idea of writing a Christmas song because he had a kid on the way — telling Moore ...

Angie Stone, the Grammy-nominated US hip hop pioneer whose group The Sequence was one of the first all-female groups to record a rap song, has died in a car crash. Stone, 63, known for the 2001 ...