Rap and Hip-Hop

February 28, 2021

Derek Khan, Onetime Stylist for Hip-Hop Stars, Dies at 63

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November 26, 2020

Can the Mainstream Catch Up to Rico Nasty?

When the rapper Rico Nasty talks about falling in love at first sight, she doesn’t mean with an individual, but with a feeling. She’s talking about […]
November 20, 2020

Jeezy and Gucci Mane Address 15-Year Beef in Heated Verzuz Livestream

Nearly two million people watched live on Thursday night as two Southern rap heavyweights, Gucci Mane and Jeezy, leaned into, and then seemingly set aside, 15 […]
November 1, 2020

How J Balvin Made His Trippy, Eye-Popping Halloween Concert in Fortnite

J Balvin rehearsed and taped a concert that appeared in the video game Fortnite over four days in Glendale, Calif. Credit…Jessica Lehrman for The New York Times […]
September 4, 2020

The Work Diary of 88rising’s Pan-Cultural Hitmaker

For this year’s Coachella festival, the music mogul Sean Miyashiro planned to produce a groundbreaking festival showcase for 88rising. His Los Angeles-based pan-Asian music company scheduled […]
August 31, 2020

VMAs Recap: Lady Gaga, The Weeknd, and More

As late as this month, the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards were still scheduled to be staged in person at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, though […]
July 31, 2020

Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’: Let’s Discuss

When Beyoncé took a speaking role as Nala — the eventual queen — in the 2019 remake of “The Lion King,” she decided to delve beyond […]
July 3, 2020

Don’t Call Him Machine Gun Kelly

A few days before Los Angeles announced a shelter-in-place order in March, Colson Baker, who raps under the name Machine Gun Kelly, sat down on a […]
May 7, 2020

How Hip-Hop Royalty Found a New Home on Instagram Live

If March 11 — the date the NBA suspended its season and Tom Hanks announced he’d contracted the coronavirus — was when it became clear that […]
February 8, 2020

A Volleyball Star Who Raps as Kofi

Name: Daenan Gyimah Age: 21 Hometown: Toronto Now Lives: In a five-bedroom home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles that he rents with nine other […]