While fans are most likely to recognize T-Pain for his auto-tuned rap vocals on a variety of hit songs, the musician is ...

D.M.C., these three friends from Brooklyn were the biggest group in the game. But their crossover success would cost them.

From there, they continued to rock. The jaunty “Straight On” sounded just as naughty live as it did back when the studio ...

This article has been handpicked from the Okayplayer editorial archives and included in our Hip Hop 50 collection as a ...

Considering the worldwide influence that the late Fela Kuti's Afrobeat music has had on everyone from the Talking Heads to ...

Can Fort Wayne become known as a “music city”? Can this great city become a destination for music, like Asheville, North ...

“For Mature Audiences Only” – Scribe Shad Reed Discusses Aging Gracefully in Hip-Hop And Where We Are Now. Despite it being more than a decade ago, I still vividly remember speaking with DJ ...

One of the great music cities of America, the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN) gave us Prince, The Replacements, ...

In the late 80s, rapping was just a hobby for Wyandanch ... Khalil Kain and Jermaine Hopkins. The classic hip-hop track which puts a hard edge on its smooth jazz sample (Nat Adderley’s 1968 ...

There's a song written by the jazz singer Billy Eckstine with Sid Kuller called "Blues, the Mother of Sin" that has always ...

hard cash via spicy rap tracks and a relentless social media presence". The GTA games have always been recognised for their brilliant soundtracks - shout out to Vice City's classic 80s tracks ...

A movie doesn't have to be a musical to be, well, musical! There are countless great films about music that don't feature ...