Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...

In a musical world that for many years has been shaped by fixed stereotypes and social constraints, Sudanese female rappers ...

Netflix has greenlighted an Italian edition of its hit rap competition Rhythm + Flow, following in the wake of the hit U.S. original and the successful French version Nouvelle École which is now in ...

HIP-HOP WAS BORN IN THE BRONX IN the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary, “ Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists ...

EXCLUSIVE: Q-Tip, the legendary rapper, producer, singer and lyricist, will be adding his hip-hop know-how to the Broadway-bound Ali, a musical about Muhammad Ali’s life in and out of the boxing ring.

Rap is the most word-intoxicated genre in the history of American popular music. Against a stark background of pure rhythm, rappers' words arrive in a torrent of syncopated speech -- rhymes, puns, ...

The Central Jail Karachi is a labyrinth of iron bars, stone walls, and silent screams. Its rigid concrete exterior holds decades of history, while the lives imprisoned within echo with dreams of ...

Dwight Yoakam also makes the list; a punk band channels Thin Lizzy A ranked selection of notable new recordings we heard in April. Young Thug, “Barter 6” This Atlanta insurgent continues to forge his ...

During Netflix’s Fan Fest event to celebrate the premiere of Rhythm + Flow season two, John Legend spoke with VIBE about executively producing the competitive rap series—as a singer. Held in Atlanta ...

First, Vitor Oliveira sold the ground floor of the bare-bones brick building he constructed near the top of his sprawling favela in Rio de Janeiro. Then he sold one of two second-floor apartments.