Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight pleaded no contest in a Los Angeles court Thursday to a charge of manslaughter for a 2015 hit-and-run killing, accepting a 28-year prison sentence under a deal with prosecutors...
Boycotted by radio shows for being too provocative but piling up hits on Ivory Coast’s social media for nailing facts of life, the young rapper’s latest song has a bite. Sex, money, social injustice...
An aspiring rapper was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison after posing in a music video with guns despite a previous conviction, US prosecutors announced Wednesday. Ricardo Burgos, a little-known Chicago artist...
For a rapper whose debut single was called “Unorthodox,” Joey Bada$$ isn’t one to accept conventional wisdom. Defying widespread warnings, he proudly stared at the solar eclipse without protection. It didn’t turn out to...
The rapper Future made history on Sunday by debuting at number one on the US chart in back-to-back weeks with different albums. The Atlanta rapper had entered at number one on the Billboard sales...
Chance the Rapper has won the Grammy for Best New Artist, validating the rapid rise of the hip-hop star who has released his music only through streaming. The rapper, who has been open about...
Multi award winning Ugandan rapper KEKO releases her new single, “Move Your Body”. The single is a mix of pop and rap with an African flavour and a great set-up for her debut album ‘STRIDES’,...
RCA UK have signed new artist Tiggs Da Author, a multi-faceted rapper, singer, songwriter and producer. Tiggs is twenty five, he was born in Tanzania before moving to London at the age of eight and...
Drake on Monday become the first artist to release an album this year that has sold more than one million copies in the United States, ending the latest industry drought. The Canadian rapper’s “If...
He calls himself 50 Cent, but the hip-hop mogul says he may not be worth even that. The rapper known for the album and movie “Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” filed for bankruptcy protection...
