If the Eagles won the Super Bowl, then the next Amplifier playlist would be made up entirely of songs by artists from Philadelphia. The football gods upheld their end of this bargain — in case you ...

The loss of Irv Gotti, who died last week at the age of 54, is immense. The Hollis, Queens native was a relic from an era when being a hip-hop multi-hyphenate wasn’t about diversifying your portfolio ...

"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

Armon Capel, aka MAC Dablacksheep, comes from a legendary Fayetteville basketball family. But he has blazed his own path in ...

Classix 102.9 will be shifting its format starting Saturday by adding Southern soul to its existing R&B songs from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Southern soul is a combination of styles including ...

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like 4Fargo, Bryant Barnes and THEY. 2025 is only three weeks old and the rap world is in full-swing. Outside of the headlines ...

Although they weren’t looking for it, friends Chris Kelly and Chris Smith got their big break in 1991 when they were discovered by a then-18-year-old Jermaine ... R&B and hip-hop groups ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums ... It’s fascinating to see an old-school New York bruiser like Nems teaming up with Millyz, a decidedly more melodic rapper from Massachusetts.

Let’s start with Glasper. The five-time Grammy winning jazz-hip-hop-R&B bandleader is a frequent collaborator with Philly compadres like Questlove, Bilal, and the Baylor Project, and he’s been a ...

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Abby Jasmine and Qing Madi. Speaking about anything related to album releases and awards season feels frivolous as a series of ...

Hip-hop's inception came from house parties hosted in the Bronx in the1970s. As hip-hop has evolved with several sub-genres like gangsta rap, conscious rap, trap, and many more, there's no ...

Hip-hop has been around for 50 years. Although the genre was first formed in New York, it has expanded tremendously worldwide. In the early '90s, rappers from the East and West Coasts were getting ...