Michie Mee brought together a generation, pushing boundaries and cementing herself as one of Canada's first hip-hop ...

On this day in Hip-Hop, St. Louis native and rap icon Nelly released his groundbreaking debut album, Country Grammar, via Universal Records. Dropping in the heat of summer 2000, the project blended ...

Today, Canada Post unveiled a new Black History Month stamp set celebrating the vibrant roots of hip-hop in Canada. The stamps pay tribute to three of the country's most dynamic hip-hop trailblazers – ...

Rap music made headlines for losing its Billboard chart dominance, but it's being celebrated more than ever at the 2026 ...

You really don’t see country and hip-hop collaborations that much nowadays. It’s a shame, really. These two genres might not have a ton in common musically, but they’re different enough to really ...

Michael “5000” Watts founded his Swishahouse record label in 1997, and there was a time in the early 2000s when the Houston-based rap label’s music was taking over the country. It was hard to go ...

In 2024, 20% of the Recording Industry Association of America's gold- and platinum-selling albums and singles claimed Nashville's music industry in their development. That surge has balanced the music ...

Over the last few weeks, “Old Town Road” — a strutting and lightheartedly comedic country-rap tune by the previously unknown 20-year-old rapper Lil Nas X — has lived an improbable number of lives. It ...

This set the foundation for vibrant and radical hip hop music. With time, MCs started rhyming over these beats in a new form of expression called rap, described as “no melody, strong beat, and talk.” ...

Lizzie Hyman is a Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE, where she contributes in-depth features and covers entertainment and news across both print and digital platforms. Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on ...

Hip-Hop didn’t invent rebellion, it inherited the fire from H. Rap Brown long before the culture had a name. Growing up, my parents were not overtly activists or political. But there were clues. One ...