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6. Work Cited: Enck, Suzanne Marie. Review of The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime ...

From the Bronx to the world, hip-hop's evolved beyond music to a tool for healing. Could hip-hop be the therapy we need to ...

The world’s biggest drill rapper may spend the rest of his life in bars — and no one should want his crown. This week, Chicago rapper Lil Durk was arrested in an alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill ...

A lovely idea, but, unfortunately, the record contains the most lethargic songs of Harper’s career. This early Sparklehorse ...

Musically, CHROMAKOPIA is the rap auteur's most confident album. Emotionally, it might be his most self-effacing, as it ...

Madison Youth Poet Laureate and rapper Justin Russell insists he wrote his first rap song out of necessity. The diss track, ...

On a "Best Songs of the 2020's" list, I'd give Price a nod for "Lydia ... Atmosphere at The Capitol Theatre I've been counting down to Atmosphere's show at The Capitol Theatre this weekend for a long ...

Krept, whose real name is Casyo Johnson first broke onto the music scene as one half of rap duo Krept and Konan. Over the ...

Will Hatcher got internet famous when Metro Boomin sampled his AI-generated song for a diss track released during the ...

This is the writer.” This odd exchange was common for MF DOOM, one of hip-hop’s greatest tricksters. To reject celebrity and center his talent, DOOM, whose real name was Daniel Dumile Jr., wore a ...

Music and politics have been intertwined continuously and the relationship between the two exists at an all-time high in the ...