The iconic 90s hip-hop artist was known for his pained intensity. But Dear Mama, a tribute to his mother Afeni, showed off ...

The impression left by the Rogers Arena performance Jelly Roll gave on night two of the singer’s cross-country Beautifully Broken: Great Northern Tour is that he is the man to beat in the hick-hop ...

She found solace hanging around local street gangs (including the Gangster Disciples ... on Tupac's stirring 1991 debut album 2Pacalypse Now, the gut punch of a rap fable Brenda's Got a Baby ...

After umpteen months of vague promises and biffed deadlines, Playboi Carti’s newest opus finally materialized the other day ...

Angus Batey unpicks the difficult, troubling legacy of the rapper/ actor Tupac Shakur and the album he released one year ...

As modern music’s most entertaining chameleon embraces pop chaos once again on her new album ‘Mayhem’, Adam White has ranked every song she’s ever released (but not the ones she did with Tony Bennett ...

Remembering Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, MOJO revisits a brain-scrambling encounter with the high priest of dub. “Are you f**kin’ mad ...

“I knew [once] I go on, it’s no stopping me, cuz one, I know how to rap, two ... that threads the album’s harder-hitting gangster raps to its plusher, more aspirational cuts.

The Courant’s arts picks for March 2-8 includes comedy events that range from stand-ups to “The Harold” and special shows marking Oscar Night and Mardi Gras.

Hip-hop is a musical form invented by African Americans yet King Kapisi's 2000 debut could only have come from deep in the ...