UVa professor A.D. Carson's doctoral dissertation rap album "Owning My Masters" promises "the poems that people are scared to say out loud." ...

Nawab Gang is redefining Telugu hip-hop with a fearless blend of heritage and modern rap culture. From underground cyphers to ...

Turning poetic pens into megaphones, hip hop has always announced the realities of environments where poverty, crime, ...

In 1977, "Little Orphan Annie" was adapted for the stage and became the Broadway musical "Annie," written by Thomas Meehan, ...

Menzel has plenty to give. She could be the greatest squandered resource on Broadway in decades, which makes this ...

The proliferation of "y'all" points to a global cultural shift toward more inclusive language and merging traditions.

now considered one of the best rap singles of all time, “I Get Around.” This is the homecoming of the funk roots from where 2Pac developed a taste for rhyming ... writing poetry as a student ...

The rapper, born Tupac Amaru Shakur in Brooklyn, was some four years into a chart career that saw him become, and remain, one of the most influential and revered rap figureheads in the genre’s ...

Redbook Mango, a poet, rapper, and Street Sense vendor, was found dead in October after loved ones reported her missing in ...

Drake appears to be done beefing. After Kendrick Lamar’s epic performance of his Drake dis track “Not Like Us” at the Super ...

Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion ...