Sixty-eight years ago today, Johnny Cash played his first-ever prison concert and unknowingly changed the country music world.

All-time greats Nas (working with producer extraordinaire DJ Premier) and De La Soul dropped lively, sonically eclectic ...

The freewheeling, sweet-edge weirdness that had made Chancellor Johnathan Bennett a teenage sensation picked up for tours ...

We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...

Florida Rapper Poorstacy died on Saturday, November 29, following an incident in Boca Raton. Dylan Huberman, public information manager for the Boca Raton Police Department, said in a statement that ...

The musician, real name Carlito Milfort Jr., died in Florida on Saturday, Nov. 29 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has ...

BOCA RATON, Florida — Rapper POORSTACY, a rising star known for blending emo, punk and hip-hop, has died at 26 after a medical emergency at a hotel in Boca Raton, according to NME. TMZ, which first ...

Nicki Minaj made history on Tuesday as the first female rapper to speak before the United Nations, using the moment to highlight growing concerns about violence against Christian communities in ...

Argentine rapper @Trueno first got his start in underground freestyle battles. Today, he is the most nominated rapper at this year’s Latin Grammys. He is up for awards in the rap/hip-hop song (“Fresh” ...

ATLANTA (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Well-known rapper Rod Wave, whose real name is Rodarius Green, was arrested in Atlanta on Friday on drug and weapons charges. Green was booked into the Fulton County ...

A rapper has been arrested on drug and weapon charges hours after getting his first Grammy nomination. Rod Wave was arrested Friday in Atlanta, according to Fulton County Jail records obtained by the ...