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In the midst of colossal battles between juggernaut artists and a seemingly endless barrage of music to be consumed every month, it can be very fun, and slightly overwhelming, to keep up with the ...

When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...

Today, rock and rap can be thought of as quite different. When someone begins to describe what kind of music they like, they’ll say, “I like rock, rap…” Hardly ever are they considered siblings, or ...

Five albums by Louisiana artists were selected for music website Pitchfork's newly-released top 100 rap albums of all time — ...