From block parties to Billboard charts, hip hop has never been one thing. This guide breaks down the major styles from old school pioneers and G-Funk grooves to modern-day drill, trap, and grime. A ...

From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the ...

Don’t miss the “Rap Trap: Hip-Hop on Trial” premiere, set for Thursday, Feb. 23. The ABC News Studios’ hour-long production centers around the arrest and indictment of Young Thug (Jeffery Williams) ...

New Orleans native rapper McKinley "Mac" Phipps and his wife Angelique won an Emmy Award last week for their short film, "Rap Trap: Hip Hop on Trial." It won an Emmy for Outstanding Arts, Culture and ...

Clockwise from the left: Offset, Quavo, and Takeoff of the trio Migos; Future; and Lil Reek (Illustration by Matt Williams) Future’s music also showcases the current hallmarks of the southern-born, ...

On August 10, the Trap Music Museum officially celebrated its fifth anniversary by collaborating with Tiny Doors ATL for an event to highlight the intersection of music and culture. The event focused ...

It started in a smoky trap house in East Oakland, teens banging on a table, freestyling about scrounging up enough cash to buy a twenty sack. A chant: “I got five on it.” What happened next was part ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of hip hop, which began in the Bronx, New York, in August 1973. You can celebrate with the “Masters of the Mic: Hip Hop 50 Tour” at Wolf Trap in Virginia on ...

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Hip hop has never been just one sound — it’s a collection of styles that grew from the streets into global movements. From the simple rhymes of Old Skool Rap to the raw edge of Hardcore and Gangsta ...