After a harrowing 2007 — a year that started with the arrest of leading mix-tape maker DJ Drama — hip-hop mix tapes played it cool in 2008. Collections co-signed by top-level talent were scarce, ...

Ryan Hemsworth is back with a new mix, Just Rap, for the men's retailer Frank & Oak. (He recently made most of his old mixes available for free download, so you can catch up on the back catalog ...

AFTER TEN YEARS AS A MIX-TAPE DJ, KARINA TOLIVER, known on the streets of New York as DJ Lazy K, names one accomplishment with extra pride: Several years ago, she was of fered a track by “this new hot ...

Innovation is no longer a prerequisite for success in a hip-hop galaxy built on marketing formulas, video budgets, gangster posing and conspicuous consumption of name-brand luxuries. But it was alive ...

A good rap/rock fusion seems as elusive as a tasty low-cal dessert. It worked 25 years ago in the hands of Run-D.M.C and Rick Rubin, but the rash of thick-skulled rap-metal that sprung up in the late ...

BISMARCK-One North Dakota musician has a different way of spitting rhymes: rapping along to his wife's violin.Bismarck couple Josh and Tara Bohlen started rapping and playing together in April as ...

P & S Paving produces and places high reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) mix designs on Florida Department of Transportation State Road 15A project for third time. If you're not convinced how a high RAP ...

This week’s B Side cover story is about Houston Rap (Sinecure), a new photo book on the hip-hop scene in the biggest city in the state where everything is bigger. It’s a dense book packed with quotes ...

The proportion of rap songs that referenced depression, suicide and mental health struggles more than doubled between 1998 and 2018, according to a study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...