Rapping is built on a set of skills that closely resemble those required in politics: timing, improvisation, argumentation and rhetoric, audience awareness, and sarcasm. A rapper must know when to ...

From bulldozers and viral posts to bureaucratic deadlock and street protests, Balendra Shah’s mayoral record reveals the ...

Kendrick Lamar is officially the most-awarded hip-hop artist in Grammys history. The “Not Like Us” rapper took home the awards for best rap album for “GNX,” best rap song for “TV Off,” melodic rap ...

The crossover hits stacking Grammy nods this year have little in common with the culture that birthed them — but they're ...

Tell us what you really think. Subscribe to Pitchfork for $5 a month and get your score on the record. Joining Lamar in the Album of the Year race are Bad Bunny, Clipse, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, R&B ...

A Minnesota-based rapper who performs as Nur-D shares what it was like to be tackled and detained by federal troops at a protest site in Minneapolis on Saturday.

Dancehall superstar Vybz Kartel says his upcoming album will be titled God and Time, and that the project will take a certain ...