Issa Rae’s City Girls-inspired musical dramedy, Rap Sh!t, has returned for a second season of Miami-based indie rap shenanigans on Max. With its return comes another season soundtrack packed with the ...

RAP-unzel is a rap musical take on the classic fairy tale with a zany twist. A princess in a tower is more than what she seems, and the words of this uplifting musical encourage us to really listen to ...

Thaddeus Russell suggests that some day critics will hold rap in the same esteem as jazz (Opinion, Aug. 16), which once was vilified for its “immorality” even as rap is now. His comparison of the ...

Move aside, Hamilton! There’s a new rap musical in town. Rick spoke with the cast and crew of the Stage 773 production of “Dundee: A Hip-Hopera.” He heard from the show’s writer Gabe Caruso, musical ...

Kendrick Lamar leads the list of new Grammy Award nominees. Will rap music finally rule on music’s biggest night?

Over the weekend, I went to Scarecrow Video and discovered “Rappin’,” a musical movie made in 1985. The movie feels like it was made by tons of people, each of whom thought they were making a ...

Almost from the moment he died, people have wondered where Jimi Hendrix's brilliant musical mind might have taken him — and his listeners — if he'd lived. Producer Eddie Kramer, who worked with him ...

Hip-hop was born in New York in the 1970s. There's some disagreement over the first use of the term “hip-hop” or “rap” to describe the burgeoning music, but it’s widely agreed upon that it was started ...