Hip-hop is in a complicated place right now. It’s not the dominant force it once was, but it remains the engine of popular music, with flashier, more global genres borrowing its strategies, sounds, ...

Rank Wood rapped the 2011 Chris Brown song to put his young daughter to sleep Sara Belcher is a digital news writer/editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

Within the continuous additions to and retellings of music history, a genre such as hip-hop is usually caught within efforts to categorize and explain its origins, which happened largely outside of ...

On Friday (Oct. 18), Mexican artist Chino Pacas released his new album Que Sigan Llegando las Pacas, which surprisingly features Drake on the song "Modo Capone" with Fuerza Regida. However, instead of ...

Alaynna Doty became a viral hit rapping Project Pat’s “Chickenhead” at a Mississippi restaurant and now she is reacting to her new fame. A 9-year-old rapped with confidence and charisma at a packed ...

A man who was a cornerstone of Atlanta rap died over the weekend. DJ Unk was 43 years old. NPR music reporter Sidney Madden has this remembrance. SIDNEY MADDEN, BYLINE: If you were listening to the ...

This father has a new take on a lullaby. Rank Wood is a dad to 9-month-old Journey, and he recently found out she loves to fall asleep to the sound of his rapping. In a TikTok video that’s now been ...