In an age of bouncy and slow trap-based rap music — where the tempos of songs are usually between 130 and 160 beats per minute (BPM) — it's refreshing that certain rappers are bringing freestyle music ...

Maria Cavalluzzo of Babylon has one rule when she goes to a freestyle concert with her girlfriends — she insists on having seats upfront. “I will not go unless I get tickets in the front row,” she ...

Before freestyle — the dance music born out of New York’s Latin community in the 1980s — even had a name, an underage Lisa Velez (before she became Lisa Lisa) remembers sneaking into the storied Fun ...

Freestyle music got its name from a Miami group called Freestyle Express. Someone left out half the name on the group’s most popular record, and when “Don’t Stop the Rock” became a national hit, the ...

At 9 p.m. on a breezy Thursday at The Boat Yard at Tobay Beach, the dance floor is packed with 40- and 50-somethings grooving to the freestyle music that was the soundtrack to their teens and 20s. As ...

Last weekend, a cavernous former bank vault in lower Manhattan was transported for one night—which happened to be Friday the 13th—back to the 80s, when the hair was bigger, the songs were sweeter, and ...

Though started on the East Coast, the Bay Area launched Freestyle’s commercial explosion and laid the foundation for contemporary EDM. The July 25th Stevie B show at San Jose’s Plaza de Cesar Chavez ...

She teased her first solo record in three years earlier this week. By Heran Mamo The wait is officially over — Cardi B dropped her “Like What (Freestyle)” Friday (March 1). The rapper teased the new ...

The Bad Boy mogul takes a 5AM stroll through the Big Apple with his City Girl in the new music video. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 18: Sean “Diddy” Combs surprises students at his Capital Preparatory ...

Megan Thee Stallion knows she "look too good, AI couldn't generate it," or so she says on her new song, "Tina Tuesday ...