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Pace now helps mentor incarcerated youth through the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project. One of those youths is 26-year-old Raequan Deal, born and raised in Philadelphia. In 2016, when he was 17, Deal ...

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Irv Gotti, a noted record executive, music producer and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Murder Inc. Records, has ...

The list we present here follows love’s movement through nearly four decades of hiphop, from Man Parrish to Missy Elliott.

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Rapper Doechii won best rap album at Sunday's Grammy Awards, becoming the third woman in the award show's history to claim ...

Kendrick Lamar has won Best Rap Song for "Not Like Us" at the 2025 Grammy Awards.

Sometimes, it will make you want to dance, or work, or fight your way through the rest of the day. I call these "Battle Songs ...