Hip-hop’s heartbeat in 2025 belongs to the ladies. The male-dominated rap scene is no more as these fearless female voices ...

We have been in a female rap renaissance for at least the last decade, but this year has been particularly kind to Southern women in rap and their supporters. In June, I was standing in a sold-out ...

In March, C-list rapper-turned-podcaster Joe Budden declared that “the girl rapper wave is over,” predicting that the recent period of unprecedented success and visibility for a growing number of ...

Eligible for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction since 2010, the rap troupe Salt-N-Pepa gets its flowers with a Music ...

From its earliest days, hip-hop has been fundamentally about storytelling, with artists repurposing existing sounds to create new forms of self-expression. While the genre is often perceived as ...

Just days before Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded was released, noted music writer Jon Caramanica wrote an op-ed in The New York Times calling Nicki Minaj “the most influential female rapper of all time.” ...

Jeff Pearlman found the people who inspired the classic 1991 2Pac song, which has reverberated through hip-hop myth-making for decades. 13 hours ago “So, a lot of people give female rappers a hard ...