As it celebrates its 50th birthday, we are mapping hip-hop's story on a local level, with more than a dozen city-specific histories of the music and culture. Click here to see the entire list. Back ...

Hip-hop is in a complicated place right now. It’s not the dominant force it once was, but it remains the engine of popular music, with flashier, more global genres borrowing its strategies, sounds, ...

Bruiser Wolf raps in cursive. Rhymes curl out of his mouth in flamboyant loop-de-loops, punctuated with dramatic pauses that sound 10 months pregnant. Try to plot this marvelous mouth in the greater ...

Long before E-40 became a regional hero in Northern California, he would walk into Vallejo’s Salvation Army and Goodwill outposts with a handful of dimes, hunting for old records to sample. One day he ...

GloRilla (L) and BossMan Dlow perform at the WGCI Big Jam. Credit: Courtesy Interscope; courtesy the artist The WCGI Big Jam, hosted by the Chicago hip-hop station, celebrates the season with some of ...

Hip-hop is the ultimate loudspeaker for the inventive language being generated on back blocks, basement parties, and school cafeterias in various corners of Black America. Phrases and terms that, at ...

The West Coast rapper is an unsung pioneer of some of the genre’s most central elements. Too Short onstage in Washington State in July.Credit...Abdi Ibrahim for The New York Times Supported by By Tom ...

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*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. St. Louis underground rappers Ron G, Tank the Machine, Bo Dean, MC Tres and A-Game during Boomin Visual's HUSTL3 C1T4 cypher.