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Though they might not always be as heralded, women have played crucial roles in some of the most impactful rap battles in history. Now, in a debut book from veteran culture writer Brooklyn White-Grier ...

It seems we’re all in agreement: Kendrick Lamar defeated Drake in one of the most engrossing rap battles of the decade. To add insult to injury, Drake also threw himself into legal hot water when he ...

Through years of shapeshifting musical structures, increasingly free associative writing and, punching in, and frankly, murder, the notion of truly high-stakes rap battles had been a dormant one. And, ...