The Culture, Curated

Doja Cat worked the Texas midterm results into her show. At the Dallas stop of the Tour Ma Vie World Tour, she reworked her hit "Paint the Town Red"...

Jurors in the Yella Beezy murder trial have heard the rapper's comments about revenge and his feud with MO3.

Testimony has focused on the history of...

The article can only speculate about where 2Pac's career might have gone, asking whether he would have taken a political turn, chased an Oscar, or...

GloRilla and Sexyy Red's new single "Jiggly Bow Bow" is their fifth collaboration, built around a shared love of a good time. The song captures their...

The opening credits of GTA V pair a funk bassline with blaring trumpet and wild electric guitars. The article calls that sound unmistakably West...

The rollout moved fast from a fan debate to a full release:

• Preview pushback: Some listeners judged the song from the teaser and told GloRilla to...

Ye's Yeezy Season 01 show in Los Angeles marked his runway return, his first Yeezy show since 2022's Paris exhibit. The 17-minute show was...

A new Loe Shimmy record began as a preview at Drake's 40th birthday party, where Future and Travis Scott were on it. Now a snippet is out featuring...

Fabolous used a "Cousins" interview to make his case:

• He wants Drake to lean further into his lyrical side, with a full project of tight lyrics and...

Sources disagree on the election date: one dates the midterms to Nov. 4, while another says Tuesday. Here is the sequence as reported:

• Midterms:...

The origin story starts in Kingston, where Herc was born in 1955. Coxsone Dodd's Downbeat system set the model, and in that culture the selector was...

Quavo's official video for "Watuhname" runs 2:44 and has 90,234 views and 6,035 likes.

The description leads with "Tell Em Satchamo Sent Ya!", pointing the standalone visual back to the Satchamo branding.

Kevin Gates' video for "This Dat" runs 2:02 and lists these credits:

• Video: Shot by shotbydemarcustv
• Production: Prod. by BWA RON x LX6
• Engineering: Engineered by Millz
• Audience: 207,226 views, 12,084 likes and 810 comments on the listing

The political and legal stories landed on the same day. Minaj appeared outside a New Hampshire polling station, a week after leading a Michigan rally...

Pusha T calls rap battles "a very competitive sport", and his boundary is simple: "As long as it's music, it's fine. Anything outside of that realm,...

This lyric roundup centers on Kanye and his Benz. One verse shows the car coming between lovers: a woman in tears tells the narrator he loves the car more than her.

In an exclusive behind-the-scenes look, Lil Man J shares new lyrics while recording in his studio. He also talks about his journey from being labeled...

Looking back at November 4, several major albums debuted or charted strongly:

• 1997: JAY-Z's In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 logged in at No. 3 on the...

Seven years after "RNP" first brought them together, Cordae and Anderson .Paak have a shared No. 1 on Billboard's Top Rap Albums chart with Heavy...

RapMV is an AI rap production tool that creates a song from a short theme prompt and can turn a selected section into a lip-synced music video.