From its earliest days, hip-hop has been fundamentally about storytelling, with artists repurposing existing sounds to create new forms of self-expression. While the genre is often perceived as ...

The hip-hop world is in the midst of a transformative era, with Southern female rappers emerging as forces to be reckoned with. What started as a small movement has now grown into a cultural ...

This month YouTube’s most successful stationary mic platform On The Radar Radio savvily diversified. While the channel started with more boilerplate interview and trending news coverage, the channel’s ...

For the first time, Billboard's Hot 100 Top 40 doesn't feature a single rap song. Is this due to changing listener ...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill and Lil’ Kim deconstructed barriers that negated the artistic expression of female rappers in mainstream hip-hop music. In their records, ...

Kendrick Lamar dominated this year's Grammy nominations with nine nods, while Doechii broke through with five.

Nicki Minaj reignited excitement for her next album, calling it “hit after hit” just weeks after threatening to cancel it over tensions with Jay-Z.

We have been in a female rap renaissance for at least the last decade, but this year has been particularly kind to Southern women in rap and their supporters. In June, I was standing in a sold-out ...

On the latest episode of The Joe Budden Podcast, titled "Zombie Biker Ladies From Princeton," which premiered on Sunday (March 3), Joe Budden offered his thoughts on the current state of female rap ...

Sexyy Red and GloRilla have some interesting things to say about the conversations surrounding today’s female rappers. As part of XXL‘s new cover story, Glo and Sexyy asked each other questions, ...