In between the release of Madvillainy and Mm..Food, MF DOOM also released several other albums. He also made some notable guest appearances on songs from De La Soul and Zero 7. Let's look back at DOOM ...

The past hurtles toward the present, and when the two collide, the future is born. No, it's not physics. It's just rap music. This formula of combining the past and present is what drives the ...

Moral values are turning up in the strangest places these days. Among the songs most honored in this year’s Grammy nominations is a rap tribute to Jesus Christ -- a catchy, beat-driven rhyme that has ...

2004 was a year of white tees, overnight celebrities and brushing one’s shoulders off. It was also ten years ago, which, whoa. Really? It’s been that long? So in remembrance of what we all listened to ...

At the 1995 Source Awards, André 3000 issued a proclamation, or a prophecy: "The South got something to say." Inspired by his words, this list represents some of the most impactful songs, albums and ...

Fox is kickin’ it old school, teaming with Ice Cube and “Futurama” co-creator David X. Cohen for a half-hour animated laffer about an early 1980s hip-hop crew. Net has ordered a pilot presentation of ...

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that rap artists should pay for every musical sample included in their work — even minor, unrecognizable snippets of music. Lower courts had already ruled that ...

People in the music industry from artist to songwriters to executives have banded together against Internet-music sharers, initiating court prosecution and sharing service shutdowns. However, ...

NEW YORK -- Carolyn Kriz is a young, extremely pretty brunette with a glamorous job: She's a media planner for a high-end retailer in midtown. So it's understandable that a guy harboring a crush on ...

We at war with terrorism, racism but most of all we at war with ourselves. -- Kanye West, "Jesus Walks" It seemed at long last that commercial rap had finally come to Jesus. Thanks to "Jesus Walks," a ...

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