Much of the discussion around producer-helmed rap albums favors the so-called boom-bap variety. Where fans clamor for their favorite lyricists to lock in with one producer, like Nas and Hit-Boy, Gibbs ...

Earlier this month, Future found himself off the Billboard charts for the first time in over three years. He’ll most likely jump right back near the top when he releases the new music he recently ...

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What is trap music? According to T.I., on the title track of his genre-defining Trap Muzik, it ain’t no album and it ain’t no game. Indeed, the origins of trap go beyond music — beyond even the ...

In 2015, Jorge Fonseca, a veteran A&R for Sony Music Latin, made a trip to Puerto Rico in search of new sounds. “When you go to the island, the streets speak to you,” he tells Rolling Stone. “You hear ...

SEATTLE — On the speakers, Future rapped about Molly, Percocet and Hendrix, and on the floor, I concentrated on trying to coerce my hips into something resembling a twerk. No dice. This wasn't a frat ...

As the sun sets over Buenos Aires, Argentina, the energy outside the Movistar Arena is electric. A sea of fans—many dressed in sleeveless tees, fake tattoos on their face, and adidas—fill the streets, ...

The introduction of the sad trap genre is the epitome popular culture evolving and reinventing pieces of itself to fit the youth’s changing perspectives, and though it still promotes questionable ...

Christopher James Gholson, popularly known as Drumma Boy, faced the music after his parents got divorced and continued to grow up under two separate roofs. “My mom would wake up cooking and cleaning.

Bossa Nova rhythms, trap, rap and reggaeton all go into Bianca Costa's musical palette, and the results have got her tens of ...

In a recent interview with Angie Martinez, T.I. said--among other things--that he created trap music. “There was no such thing as trap music prior to [T.I.]," he said. "No such thing. It didn’t exist.