Remember the first rap song you heard? Some of your favorite rappers and DJs certainly do. While hip-hop celebrates 50 years of life, The Associated Press asked some of the genre's most popular ...

Ask 10 hip-hop fans of different ages what the greatest year in rap music was, and you’ll get 10 different answers. Music consumption is a deeply personal endeavor, shaped by individual taste and ...

In every other year since 1989, the first album to reach No. 1 did so in the first half of the year. Beastie Boys’ Licensed to Ill was the first rap album to top the Billboard 200, reaching No. 1 on ...

LOS ANGELES — Remember the first rap song you heard? Some of your favorite rappers and DJs certainly do. While hip-hop celebrates 50 years of life, The Associated Press asked some of the genre’s most ...

This combination of photos shows, top row from left, 2 Chainz, 6lack, BIA, Diplo, Doechii, DJ Drama and Fat Joe, bottom row from left, Flo Milli, French Montana, JT ...

Madison Youth Poet Laureate and rapper Justin Russell insists he wrote his first rap song out of necessity. The diss track, aimed at a sixth-grade math teacher he despised, became infamous among his ...

This combination of photos shows, top row from left, Big Daddy Kane, Chuck D, Doug E. Fresh, Jermaine Dupri, E40 and DJ Jazzy Jeff, bottom row from left, Kid Capri, Lil Jon, Method Man, Queen Latifah, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Remember the first rap song you heard? Some of your favorite rappers and DJs certainly do. While hip-hop celebrates 50 years of life, The Associated Press asked some of the genre’s ...