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One of the first albums I downloaded to my bulky iPod Classic as a teenager was Curren$y’s Pilot Talk. The song that brought me there was the smoker’s anthem ...

Documentarian Tariq Nasheed is back to defend his “Microphone Check” movie, which has garnered considerable controversy. During the conversation, Nasheed re-addressed the claim and notion that Hip-Hop ...

It may be a reckless exercise to try and list 25 rap albums memorable for the controversy they induced. Since the mid-Eighties, after the genre slowly evolved from a mostly 12-inch medium to one where ...

Missouri state Sen. Jamilah Nasheed speaks on the Senate floor on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, during a special session. ST. CHARLES COUNTY — Former state Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, who now serves on Missouri’s ...

Kendrick Lamar, left, on Aug. 27, 2017, in Inglewood, Calif., and Drake, right, in Los Angeles on June 4, 2019. (AP) When it comes to hip-hop beef, I prefer mine without misogyny and violence. Rappers ...

Like a soap opera, you skip an episode and lose track of the story. For the past month, two of the most successful hip-hop artists of recent times—Kendrick Lamar and Drake—have been embroiled in a ...

You may hear a familiar, melodious voice wafting out of Muslim homes this Ramadan. One of Birmingham's most popular Islamic singers is Mikhaael Mala, a West Bromwich born Nasheed artist that even ...

For the chart's 35th anniversary, we review all of the chart's year-end No. 1 winners. By Trevor Anderson Since Billboard first began its national survey of song sales in the 1940s, the ever-changing ...