Rap beef has always walked a fine line between competition and chaos, but in 2025, that line was blurrier than ever. Once a matter of high-stakes lyrical sparring, feuds like Kendrick Lamar and ...

A man desperately tried to save his 14-year-old son after gunmen targeted rappers at a Stockton birthday party, killing four. Patrick Peterson watched his 14-year-old son, Amari, crawl across the ...

H. Rap Brown, one of the most vocal leaders of the Black Power movement, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the killing of a Georgia sheriff’s deputy. He was 82. Brown — ...

A charismatic orator in the 1960s, he called for armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of murder in 2000 and died in detention. By Paul Vitello Jamil Abdullah ...

Kendrick Lamar is set to headline the biggest stage in music after a blockbuster year. Fresh off the Grammy Awards, in which Lamar was nominated for seven awards and took home five, the Compton, ...

Dallas-Fort Worth hip-hop has become a hotspot for discovering the next superstar. With New Dallas being the talk of the city, the drill scene’s undeniable popularity and boogie music making a ...

One of rap’s most enduring feuds began with "The Bomb," in which 50 Cent accused Sean "Diddy" Combs of being involved in Biggie's murder Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...