Mamdani chooses uber-capitalists Biggie, Nas and Jay-Z among his five favorite rappers. Is it a pivot to center?

A Brooklyn gang member was sentenced Wednesday to 23 years to life after he sealed up-and-coming rapper Nick Blixky’s fate with a quick handshake and five deadly bullets. Caliph Glean, 33, an ex-con ...

A Stockton-area rapper who was arrested for violating parole the night of a shooting at a child's birthday party that left four people dead and 13 others injured is out of custody.

K-pop titan BTS takes a golden moment to return with its first full album in five years, leading a new music releases week ...

Fred Brathwaite—better known as Fab 5 Freddy—contains multitudes. Born and raised in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, he grew up in a house steeped in books, music, and radical Black consciousness. Skipping school ...

On this date more than three decades ago, Chris Martin, better known as DJ Premier, and Keith Elam, the Guru, delivered Gang Starr’s second and arguably most defining album, Step Into The Arena. The ...

VERBAL explains how Gang Starr's 'Step in the Arena' album changed his life, inspiring him to write from his own background. Republican senator steps up complaints about Trump’s stances Actor Timothy ...

“I stopped smoking and realized I didn’t like my friends.” The line allegedly belongs to the late Guru of Gang Starr. In our new podcast, House of Haze, ICE-T brings it back as a gut check for anyone ...

Bronx drill rapper Kay Flock, whose real name is Kevin Perez, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday. Perez was convicted of racketeering, attempted murder and more charges back in March.

Drill rapper Kay Flock couldn’t have headed a ruthless crew that terrorized the Bronx with rampant gun violence because he has an “intellectual disability,” his lawyers argued — as the convicted ...

A rapper was arrested for three Philadelphia murders after being accused of acting as a hit man for his gang. A rising Philadelphia rapper was busted for being a contract killer for Philadelphia’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Both Nas and DJ Premier are on hip-hop’s Mt. Rushmore, especially for those of us who came up listening to hip-hop in the 1990s.