Created with good intention, Detroit, MI-based Sports Rap Radio has been shut down. “[This is] history-making,” Parker told CBS News at the time. “[It’s] groundbreaking, [and] we just believe that the ...

Detroit, MI, has done it again, and it’s only right that one of the Blackest cities in America becomes the home to the first all-Black-led sports radio station in the nation! Sports Rap Radio on AM ...

Young black people prefer to speak in rap lyrics. At least, that's what Ben Carson seems to believe. Ben Carson recently put out a radio rap ad called “Freedom” to appeal to black voters in a ...

River Radio Ministries has partnered with Gateway Media to bring Boost Radio’s “Hip Hop Built Different” format to five Ohio ...

As it celebrates its 50th birthday, we are mapping hip-hop's story on a local level, with more than a dozen city-specific histories of the music and culture. Click here to see the entire list. Back ...

Two of 2015’s hottest records came from cities that rarely—close to never—get scanned for producing the next big hit. Louisville, Kentucky native Bryson Tiller’s “Don’t” gained him instant pop star ...

I’ll never forget how my big brother Dave used to scan the dial on our stereo after WILD 1090 AM stopped broadcasting for the day. WILD or AM109, as people often referred to it, had a tiny transmitter ...

Tito Lopez’s “Mama Proud” has that rough, bubbling with passion intensity symptomatic of MCs too big for their hometown, but maybe a little too ragged to really break through. We’ll see. “Mama Proud” ...

If the future is female, then streaming services are wildly behind the times — the big winners on these platforms are overwhelmingly men. In 2018, for example, just three of the Top 25 most-streamed ...

The Colorado budget crisis is serious, front page news. But it has also inspired some fun. As Colorado Public Radio’s Zachary Barr tells us, someone is turning budget woes into rap lyrics on Twitter.