The good folks at The Pudding, using fancy math and advanced statistics, have determined both the most hip-hop word and the least. While “sailed” pops up way less in rap than in other genres, many of ...

To English teachers, the dictionary and thesaurus are unimpeachable testaments to how words should be used. To rappers, the contents of those hallowed rule books are endlessly malleable, subject to ...

Quick: Which of the following words would you expect to hear in a rap track? Actually, the answer is all of the above, thanks to the appearance of a new music CD that uses rap to help high-school ...

Last week, Young Thug released a new song called “Power.” The Atlanta rapper is ascendent — as Tom Breihan noted in his Album Of The Week review, Young Thug’s new Barter 6 makes a “full-on rap-star ...

In all the years I’ve been debating race and racism with white people, the most common response some have offered in their own defense hinges on black people’s use of the N-word. “If they can say it, ...

The co-curators and performers of Brooklyn Academy of Music’s annual celebration of hip-hop and poetry talk about this year’s theme of "The New Storyteller." The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) ...

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A human rights professor was fired after leading a discussion about the N-word with students, saying the word should be banned from rap music. That’s what the administration at George Washington ...

Loud, proud, and here — 2020 was a breakthrough year for women in hip-hop, with Megan Thee Stallion’s Grammy win for Best New Artist, Niki Minaj and Doja Cat’s smooth chart topper “Say So,” and Cardi ...

What came first, the chicken or the egg? I often ask myself similar questions but with words or rap music. Do I love words because of rap music or rap music because of the words? I’m 44 and no closer ...