This story is the second installment of a three-part series discussing major changes in popular music throughout the course of 2024. Today’s story focuses on the current state of rap music. This year ...

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Drake’s record label is seeking to have his lawsuit against it dismissed, arguing he “encouraged” his feud with Kendrick Lamar. This legal battle represents one of the most high-profile disputes in ...

The diss track, a crucial tool in hip-hop culture for hashing out rivalries, is having a year. Many of the biggest names in rap — from Kendrick Lamar and Drake to Megan Thee Stallion — have put out ...

Jaÿ-Z doesn’t know if rap battles should be part of hip-hop anymore after seeing the fallout from the epic squabble between ...

When Kendrick Lamar released Not Like Us last spring, it immediately became a viral sensation. The diss track aimed at Drake was the culmination of an ongoing back-and-forth between the two artists.

Universal Music Group is requesting to dismiss Drake’s federal defamation lawsuit against the label over Kendrick Lamar’s blockbuster song “Not Like Us,” saying in a legal filing that the rapper’s ...

Just over a year after lighting the globe ablaze with his massive word drop in what’s arguably the biggest battle in modern rap history, Kendrick Lamar graces the greater Phoenix area on the Grand ...

In the tradition of KRS One’s “The Bridge is Over,” Drake’s “Back to Back” and 50 Cent’s “How to Rob,” Philly rapper Eazy the Block Captain and Maryland’s Ace Amin are shifting the culture with real ...