St. Louis has a history as a musical culture shifter. Jazz, the blues, rock and roll are just a few of the genres where artists with roots in the region have had a pivotal role in shaping sound for ...

The hip-hop universe just got turned upside down, and honestly, we’re still trying to process what just happened. Ye, the musical mastermind who’s never met a surprise he didn’t like, just blindsided ...

Hip-hop is officially middle-aged, but its mortality is hardly in question. Half a century after the genre’s birth, the GRAMMY Museum celebrated the lovechild of funk and DJ culture with an expansive ...

I watched a new era in Stockton’s hip-hop scene come of age. Moving to the Central Valley city in the early 2000s, I found a hip-hop community that was its own form of resistance. Smoldering ...