Not every hitmaker's story is an uplifting one. Here are three tragic backstories behind one-hit wonders from the 1980s.

On September 13, 1996, Tupac Shakur, a 25-year-old hip-hop icon, was killed in a violent shootout, leaving a lasting legacy ...

Exploring various examples of hip-hop's references to doo-wop, a genre that was highly influential on hip-hop in a number of ...

A lone compact disk titled “The Great Adventures of Slick Rick” of 1988 was wedged in between hip-hop albums of this decade, all nestled high on a rack at f.y.e. (For Your Entertainment) store at ...

YoungBoy Never Broke Again helped make a terminally ill child’s dream come true by collaborating with him on his first ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up As musicians sat in position waiting for their cue, a massive ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. “Imagine if a blue collar or middle-class sitcom dad … was cool enough to make rap music, that’s what I ...

For Austin Rapbaum, consistency is key. It’s his brand: If there’s something you enjoy doing, figure out a way to just show up daily, he says. So in late 2018, the New Orleans-based rapper and ...

This year has had its low points. Lykke Li got engaged, Lindsay Lohan couldn’t catch a break, world issues, other things. But there were positives, too. Like, for instance when Lil B’s cat made a song ...