Before the jail complex becomes completely nonexistent, check out some of the times rappers mentioned the facility in the ...

In 2026, the craft of rapping is still thriving. These are the 15 best verses of the year, featuring everyone from Jay-Z to ...

Lifers Group returns with "Prison Life," a raw new single offering a firsthand look at the realities of incarceration and the ...

Lifers Group Unveil Powerful Visual For "Prison Life," A Stark Portrait Of Incarceration From Hip Hop's Original Prison ...

In the past few weeks, I have seen a whole lot of evidence of a gathering JPEGMAFIA backlash. This makes sense. At times, it has appeared that JPEGMAFIA is actively courting just such a backlash. He ...

WSJ Buy Side is The Wall Street Journal’s research and commerce team. Our commerce content is distinct from our newsroom coverage. We earn a commission from some links in our articles. Learn more. It ...

H. Rap Brown, one of the most vocal leaders of the Black Power movement, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the killing of a Georgia sheriff’s deputy. He was 82. Brown — ...

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, who as H. Rap Brown became a magnetic and polarizing force in the 1960s Black Power movement, died Nov. 23 at a federal prison hospital near Butner, North Carolina, where he ...

Yeah, boyee! Rap great, Flava Flav will be joining the judges pane on “Dancing with the Stars.” The Public Enemy co-founder will be a guest judge for “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Night” on Tuesday, ...

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: On last week's Billboard Hot 100, there were no rap songs in the top 40.

It feels like the Billboard charts could use a good rap beef right about now. That’s because, according to the publication, for the first time since 1990, there is no hip hop in the Top 40 of the ...

WSJ Buy Side is The Wall Street Journal’s research and commerce team. Our commerce content is distinct from our newsroom coverage. We earn a commission from some links in our articles. Learn more. We ...