Nepal, May 25 -- Behind the strong character of 'Big Didi', there lies a rapper who makes vulnerable art. Not just speaking up for herself, but for communities and struggles often left unheard. When ...

The West Coast icon also spoke with Billboard about producing the 2025 film Freaky Tales. By Mackenzie Cummings-Grady It’s impossible to overstate just how influential Too Short is to hip-hop culture.

See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred That summer, Fleck was a 10-year-old in Berkeley. He was too young to have experienced Too Short’s rap battles first-hand, but old ...

Anthony Mackie revealed on “The Pivot Podcast” Tuesday that his life story was used by Eminem as inspiration for their infamous rap battle at the end of “8 Mile.” “We’re on set one day, and he’s like, ...

This was a year in music defined by artists pulling off enviable feats — but how exactly did they do it? Billboard explains in a series of year-end essays. By Michael Saponara A 67-year-old ...

"Bad Boy" writer Travis Braun tops the list for the second year in a row with "One Night Only." The yearly compilation of the “most liked” unproduced screenplays include 83 scripts by 91 writers. The ...

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 ...

During a segment in the 2015 Amy Winehouse documentary, Amy, a voicemail plays of the singer-songwriter telling producer Salaam Remi that she’s been writing battle-rap-style rhymes and that she’s ...

HIP-HOP WAS BORN IN THE BRONX IN the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary, “ Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists ...

Kid had the more-complex rhyme scheme, Play spit the top diss, and Martin Lawrence knew when to shut his mouth in the original movie. Blow the dust off your wired microphone, there’s a new “House ...