Dealer dubbed Wales' most charming criminal insists he's a changed man

Sam Takahashi had just got engaged when he learned justice was about to catch up with him. Now he says he is done letting ...

‘Don’t Mess With a Comedic Rapper’: How Afroman Became a Free-Speech Hero

Afroman, the rapper famous for "Because I Got High," talks the police raid on his home and viral defamation trial that made ...
Gothamist

Hip-hop began in the Bronx. One critic says it sounds best close to home.

Bronx before it became a global movement — including some perspective from rap critic and native New Yorker Alphonse Pierre on why it's still best when close to home. Hip-hop’s origin story is ...
Hip-Hop Wired

Rappers Who Referenced Rikers Island In Songs

Before the jail complex becomes completely nonexistent, check out some of the times rappers mentioned the facility in the ...

How a box set from 1964 attempted to capture the sweep of American music from the colonial era to the counterculture

Long before the Revolutionary War, numerous traditions of Indigenous music flourished in places later incorporated into the ...