Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap ... Splitting the difference between last summer’s industrial rave EP, BLING BLING, and the Autotune ballads of last fall’s Babyxsosa, her ...

You can’t have a conversation about Hip Hop without mentioning the name Lil Wayne. International Hip Hop star and record ...

As Rap Culture emerged on the streets of New York jewelry became a status symbol among emerging artists By wearing and showing off different types of jewelry artists could signal to their peers the le ...

The long-awaited reunion of the Hot Boys has finally taken place. On Saturday (Nov. 2), the iconic rap supergroup — featuring ...

For the first time in nearly 20 years, Lil Wayne, Juvenile, B.G. and Turk reunited on stage as the Hot Boys in front of a ...

On January 1, 1997, music journalist Stéphane Davet wrote an article titled "American rap is sick of its godfathers." At the time, a battle was raging between the East and West Coast music scenes ...

As promised, Hot Boys — the rap supergroup of Lil Wayne ... with Juvenile performing his “Back That Azz Up” and B.G. leading his “Bling Bling.” Lil Wayne later staged his own solo ...

Charli XCX with her album, Brat The takeaway is that pop music ... Spoonie Rap thought to have coined the word (“I say you want to be dissed and then you want to be a crook/ You find an old lady, take ...

“Rap music has become more angry than the other ... The title of American rapper BG’s song “Bling-Bling” was added to the dictionary in 2003 after the song went viral.

However, it was hip-hop that really impacted spoken English ... take her pocketbook”). The word “bling,” meanwhile, is ...