A former security guard at Universal Music Publishing Group has filed suit against her former employer for allowing the use of marijuana by artists and ...

Behind the artwork on some of your favorite hip-hop albums, tatted on your favorite rappers and even on the cover of this month's XXL Nas ...

In hip-hop the competition to be No. 1 can cause strife among mic combatants. Still, there have been moments of unity where the greater good ...

More than ever, rappers are giving fans short, compact pieces of music, rather than full-lengths LPs. The format, formally known as an EP, or “extended ...

Though the music video medium isn’t as prolific as it once was, that doesn’t mean that all rap artists have thrown in the towel. Just ...

It’s been about a year since I first heard, and got excited about the development of the proposed N.W.A. biopic, Straight Out of Compton. Since ...

Seminal West Coast rap group N.W.A are about to get a woman’s touch…a White woman. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Andrea Berloff—the writer behind Oliver Stone’s ...

It’s been 15 years since hip-hop lost one of its true pioneers—Eric “Eazy-E” Wright. As the brains behind N.W.A, he was more than just a ...

Every now and then, it pays to peer into the nearest mirror. Practice a bit of the old self-evaluation. You know, size yourself up from ...