Music technology is so advanced these days that you can listen to a rapper's music for years without ever having to buy a physical album. If there's an iPhone, Android or computer within reach, ...

But for a dozen young fighters featured on a new CD, rap is the route to stress relief. "It's all a way of venting," says Marine Sgt. Kisha Pollard, 22, who left California's Camp Pendleton this month ...

Last month local hip-hop phenom Chance the Rapper landed on the Billboard charts with his Acid Rap mixtape, which he released for free in April; a “label” called MTC sold 1,000 units, and it landed on ...

Bill Cosby conceived and co-wrote a rap album. The CD, called "Bill Cosby Presents the Cosnarati: State of Emergency" and released in September, is the latest socially conscious salvo from the ...

“If Johnny Cash and Tom Petty made a hip-hop CD, that would be it.” That�s how Christian rap and hip hop artist James Osburne, 26, of South Beloit, describes his latest work. With the release of his ...

If Andrew Nickolatos told any of his friends at Vallejo High School that he would eventually become a barber, they would have thought it was shear lunacy. Music was his thing then. And, roughly a ...

In January Def Jam and Jive Records threw a joint press conference to congratulate themselves on their good fortune: Def Jam’s top artist, rapper Jay-Z–the multimillion-selling kingpin of the ...

Well before rapper Eminem's new record hit store shelves Sunday, it had already become the second-most-played CD in computer drives around the world, according to one closely watched measure. That ...