If MMA was music, it would have to be rap. Not only is individualism at the forefront of the sport and the genre, but both encompass a unique aesthetic that blends gritty toughness with technical ...

A new book, “Ali Rap: Muhammad Ali the First Heavyweight Champion of Rap,” proclaims Ali’s verbal barrage was more than self-promotion, but that it sowed the seeds of hip-hop, which was born in the ...

The Kansas City Chiefs have had many players who have gone on to pursue other ventures following their tenure with the team. Former Super Bowl champion Kadarius Toney is the latest to make his mark ...

During her Cry Pretty 306 Tour, Carrie Underwood has been inviting fans onstage to perform the rap verse of her song "The Champion." At her Thursday night (Oct. 24) tour stop in Tulsa, Okla., however, ...

Twenty years ago, rap animosity was expressed via diss songs. Like, if someone pissed you off you went home, thought about it, went to a recording studio, pressed up your album, and sent it around.

World light heavyweight boxing champion Roy Jones is releasing “Round One,” his first rap album. Jones, whose other outside interests include playing minor-league basketball and acting–his first film, ...

The Songs Whittling down the year into just ten rap songs is a difficult task, so I’ve done the sensible thing and made a playlist of fifty. I never was much of a list maker, but the below selection ...

Before the rise of Def Jam as hip-hop's definitive record label, there was Profile, which helped shepherd in some of the genre's early shifts in sound and style. A new two-CD anthology, Giant Single: ...

Sport: Baseball Team(s): New York Giants Champion: 1954 World Series Offense(s): Armed robbery Sentence: 10 years. Served three years. Hank Thompson wasn't the catalyst in the New York Giants' 1954 ...

The actor, who starred in the movie focused on India’s underground hip-hop scene, has helped start the record label IncInk. By Priya Arora The year was 1995. The song was Tupac Shakur’s “California ...