Slim Shady’s second major-label album was many things: a masterclass in rapping, an occasionally uncomfortable listen, a vessel for many tortured by angst, and, briefly, a national crisis. This is how he created a million others just like him.

Hindi rap culture is on highroad since the release of gully boy and is surely getting over the youth in India. Learn how to write a Hindi rap song.

If there’s anyone in the rap game who knows how to get everybody talking, it’s definitely Eminem. The Detroit hip hop legend released his eighth solo album The Marshall Mathers LP2 today, and with it he proves that he’s just as talented and provocative as he was at the turn of the millennium.

The brand new music video from Swollen Members from the new album "Beautiful Death Machine".

Music video by Childish Gambino performing 3005. (C) 2013 mc DJ Recording under exclusive license to Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC

An absurdly nerdy look at how hip hop invented the most important slang of our time.

J. Cole responds to Kendrick's "Control" verse, Rocky flows amazingly, and Pusha spits a verse about selling drugs (again).

Exclusive: DJ Paul's publicist confirms Lord Infamous' death after Gangsta Boo tweets about the Three 6 Mafia member's passing.

Mos Def's genious

Official music video for B-Dub and TY Gwalla's song SPAZZIN OUT. Check out their youtube links below. This video was made along with SecondCityPictures so check out that Youtube channel as well. B-DUB: http://www.youtube.com/user/TGWXYUGWE TY-GWALLA: http://www.youtube.com/user/TYOLYMPIC SecondCityPictures: http://www.youtube.com/SecondCityPictures

Music video by the rap duo "Run the Jewels" (composed of El-P and Killer Mike) for "A Christmas Fucking Miracle", from their self-titled album.

Download or stream Dwolo, Showtime GMG, Johnny May Cash, SwizZz - The Basem3nt Files mixtape

Music Video from Dwolo this song and his others are on his mixtape 2nd visual off #TheBasem3NTFiles DOWNLOAD the tape here (free to download mixtape) http://www.datpiff.com/Dwolo-The-Basem3nt-Files-mixtape.565906.html Dwolo Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/DwoloHiphop Twitter - https://twitter.com/dwoloccwp Instagram - Dwolohiphop Showtime Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/chicagoshowtime?fref=ts Twitter - https://twitter.com/Showtimegmg

Mister Cee is as central to the story of rap as the rappers themselves. Biggie Smalls, Jay Z, Big Daddy Kane—Cee came up with all of them, helped launch their careers, and has spent the past two decades spinning their records at Hot 97, the radio station synonymous around the world with hip-hop. But last year, Mister Cee's own story began to take a bizarre and shocking turn, until finally, while millions of people listened, all his demons came tumbling out

E-Clips The Monsters Rapper WeeD music video featuring B-Dub is finally out! Check it out. E-Clips: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwe2t... Twitter: https://twitter.com/MonsterousMc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Eclips... B-Dub: http://www.youtube.com/user/ThemMcs1 ©SecondCityPictures ©TwilightCityStudios

I recently came across a photo that had a sign that said Rap is like scissors it always loses to Rock. Even though I listen to more Rock and Heavy Metal than Rap I still enjoy some rap, but it wasn't really the sign itself that got to me it was people commenting on it and starting up a debate. I think these debates sometimes get too carried away.

Rodney Bryce leaves behind ubiquitous tracks that helped hip-hop infiltrate pop world.

Literary elites love to rep Shakespeare’s vocabulary: across his entire corpus, he uses 28,829 words, suggesting he knew over 100,000 words and arguably had the largest vocabulary, ever. I decided to compare this data point against the most famous artists in hip hop. I used each artist’s first 35,000 lyrics. That way, prolific artists, such as Jay-Z, could be compared to newer artists, such as Drake.

Now that Dr. Dre has sold his 'Beats by Dr' empire and become the first-ever billionaire in the hip-hop industry, rappers such as 2 Chainz, Diddy, and more are sending their congrats to the history...

“this is “niggas on the moon“, featuring björk on all 8 tracks. it is the first installment of our new double album, “the powers that b“, due out later this year on Harvest/Third Worlds Records. the second disc is titled “jenny death”. peace & love”