Two prime candidates for that reverse category are André Gregory and Wallace Shawn, the city’s oldest Nepo Baby. They’re back, more precious and pretentious than ever with Shawn’s three-act three-hour ...

Killer Mike, Travis Scott, T.I. and other artists said James Broadnax was sent to death row in Texas based partly on his artistic expression.

Travis Scott, Killer Mike, and others have filed briefs with the Supreme Court in support of a Texas man whose rap lyrics were used in his sentencing.

Holed up somewhere on Mulholland Drive, high above the Hollywood Bowl, Nick Hexum, Doug “SA” Martinez, Tim Mahoney, Aaron “P-Nut” Willis, and Chad Sexton—collectively known as 311—laid the demo for ...

Rapper Travis Scott and several other hip-hop artists are urging the US Supreme Court to review a death penalty case in Texas, arguing that rap lyrics were used improperly during sentencing. The case ...

One of the starring acts at Woodstock, he and his band, the Fish, came out of the Bay Area’s psychedelic rock scene. He went ...

Scott says the decision “subjects the entire genre to prosecution” ...

Travis Scott, Young Thug, Killer Mike and more are urging the Supreme Court to halt the execution of a man whose rap lyrics were used as evidence against him. Artists and scholars have come together ...

A preview of the March 11 screening of the new short musical film, SweetNess, with the film's writer and director, Vanessa Rae Lerma.

James Broadnax, who was 19 when he shot and killed two Dallas County Christian music producers in 2008, has filed last minute appeals ahead of his scheduled April 30 execution for the Garland murders.

The author, and first Black deputy editor in chief of Harper’s Bazaar, has written a complex, vibrant page-turner about ambition and the life of a creative in early-2000s New York ...

Some folk lyrics from back in the day were good, others were inspiring, and some were absolutely iconic in their influence.