Rap Music

College Students take on Negative Rap Lyrics

Ryan Mack | Posted 12.09.2009 | Impact


Ryan Mack

AAB understands if it truly takes a village to raise a child, we must demonstrate accountability for all of those issues that have a negative effect in the village.

Up Close and Personal With Ardi, World's Oldest Human Ancestor

eSarcasm | Posted 10.10.2009 | Comedy


eSarcasm

eSarcasm managed to score an exclusive interview with Ardi. Here she talks about what it's like to be the world's first hip hop diva, and reveals the real reasons why men walk upright.

Don Blanquito: Get Down, Dirty, and Feel the Beat (VIDEO: Explicit)

Tom Gregory | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment


Tom Gregory

Put down your guns rappers, mover over Justin, there's a new man around with a Brazilian urban sound, he's a man possessed and poised to be heard.

iTunes Dominates Music Sales; Apple Sells One Out Of Every Four Songs Sold In U.S.

MacWorld | Peter Cohen | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business


The iTunes Store can claim 25 percent of all music sold in the U.S., according to the NPD Group, up from 21 percent in 2008 and 14 percent in 2007. Wa...

Eminem, Misogyny, and the Sounds of Silence

Jackson Katz | Posted 07.06.2009 | Entertainment


Jackson Katz

The evidence of our culture's unwillingness to address the reality and ubiquity of men's violence against women is not merely contained in the lyrics on Eminem's new album.

Heineken Is Just Our Friend (VIDEO)

Mark Blankenship | Posted 06.04.2009 | Entertainment


Mark Blankenship

Have you seen this new Heineken commercial, "Let a Stranger Drive You Home?" Last week, it shot Biz Markie's 1990 hit "Just a Friend" onto the iTunes bestsellers list.

A Letter to the President, From Hip-Hop

Matthew Cooper | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics


Matthew Cooper

You once said, "Hip-Hop is not just a mirror of what is, it should also be a reflection of what can be." I can work with my people to clean up our act, but you have to understand that poverty still exists in America.

Genre Bending: How Hip Hop Became Kind of hip Pop

Daniel Werman | Posted 04.06.2009 | Entertainment


Daniel Werman

While sampling's presence may have made hip hop into the form that many of us miss dearly, its absence could actually start to foster a broad sound that we may soon grow to know and love.

Obama Changes The Rap Game

Daniel Riggs | Posted 02.27.2009 | Entertainment


Daniel Riggs

Hip-hop music has always acted as a sort of watchdog for political movement. Lyrics range from anti-American to revolutionary to ideas that encourage listeners to simply stay aware.

Notorious: The Biggie Biopic is Great But it Still Doesn't Answer, "Who Shot Ya?"

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 02.14.2009 | Entertainment


Raymond Leon Roker

Notorious is the first biopic of a hip-hop personality. Think about that as both an awesome milestone, as well as a sad testament for hip-hop.

A Modern Classic: Jawz of Life's First Breath, A Christian Rapper Who's a Proud Father

Alex Remington | Posted 02.02.2009 | Entertainment


Alex Remington

The album isn't overly pious, but Jawz's faith is apparent in the absence of the macho bull and gangsta pretension of other mainstream rap.

Ferenc Szasz: Rap Music Originated In Medieval Scottish Pubs

Daily Telegraph | Simon Johnson | Posted 01.28.2009 | Home


Rap music originated in the medieval taverns of Scotland rather than the mean streets of the Bronx and Brooklyn, an American academic has claimed. ...

The Great Hip-Hop Debate: 10 Policy Tackling Rap Videos

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 11.14.2008 | Entertainment


Raymond Leon Roker

In celebration of the third and final Presidential Debate, URB.com put together the 10 best rap songs where candidates truly debate the issues. Most of these nominees just happen to rap.

Snoop Dogg, Tupac, and Dr. Dre's Former Label Auctioned

AP | Posted 07.22.2008 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — Death Row Records, the hip-hop label that released seminal gangster rap albums by Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, has been auct...

50 Cent: The New Linda Tripp?

Paul Nair | Posted 06.26.2008 | Entertainment


Paul Nair

When does the fantasy world of rap music end and real life begin? Is it acceptable to bring a human being's obviously honest distress into a world of pseudo-tough-guy confrontation?