Tupac Shakur

Nick Drake s posthumous recorded output now surpasses the number of albums he released while on this mortal coil....

Cleveland rap camp Bone Thugs-n-Harmony was comprised of five members at one point in their more than decade on the hip-hop scene...

One afternoon in January, parked in a van outside the Toronto offices of Jay-Z’s clothing label, Rocawear, I ask for his thoughts. “It’s a double-edged sword, it’s a bit of both,” the reigning don of Canadian hip hop says...

Quitting was Jay-Z’s means to join his late, great peers — Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, gangsta stars made icons by their unsolved killings in 1996 and ’97 — in receiving eternal, near-universal love from hip hop’s masses...

Young Buck can move a crowd. One of the four horsemen of the infamous rap group G-Unit, Young Buck commandeered the stage at Seattle's Chop Suey Monday night...

Miles from downtown, the southern neighborhoods of Nashville are home to a thriving enclave of Kurdish immigrants. Just off a wide commercial strip called Nolensville Pike, women in head scarves shop at the Judy International Market...

Clair, known as Queenie, ran the Harlem numbers business and an extortion gang known as The Forty Thieves. She was so tough that the white mobsters left her and her turf alone...

Music Review: Lake of Tears - Moons and Mushrooms The last gasps of progressive rock occurred in the late 1980s. Young people were just turning on to rap, hip hop and grunge rock, which hit on themes they could associate with...

The involvement of young black men in gangs is down to the hip-hop culture they aspire to, argues youth worker Paul Kassman...