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News Articles: Genre: Hip-Hop

Drakeo the Ruler performs during Rolling Loud on Dec. 12, 2021 in San Bernardino, Calif.

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  • Music

Drakeo the Ruler, a rising force in West Coast rap, has died at age 28

The rapper was hailed as "the most original West Coast stylist in decades." He was reportedly stabbed at the Once Upon a Time in LA music festival.

December 22, 2021
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By:
  • Hazel Cills
Kangol Kid, pictured in 2017 in New York City, has died at age 55 after being diagnosed with colon cancer.

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  • Music News

Kangol Kid, hip-hop pioneer, has died at 55

As a member of the hip-hop group UTFO, he was part of a pioneering era of New York City rap in the early 1980s. The Brooklyn group was best known for their 1984 hit song "Roxanne, Roxanne."

December 18, 2021
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By:
  • Hazel Cills
Projects released by Young Thug, Tyler, the Creator and Little Simz are included in NPR Music's best hip-hop albums of 2021.

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  • Music Features

The 25 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2021

This year's best hip-hop — including Westside Gunn, Mach-Hommy and Moor Mother — comes from death and defiance, erotic power and provocation, Black joy and pain — and that's just the shortlist.

December 10, 2021
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  • GPB Newsroom
Mick Jenkins performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert.

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  • Music

Mick Jenkins: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Backed by a four-piece band, the Chicago-bred MC plays a Tiny Desk home concert that simmers with soul.

December 10, 2021
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By:
  • Rodney Carmichael
GPB  NPR

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  • Music Features

The 100 Best Songs of 2021

Think of the best songs of 2021 as a playlist catering to the most basic human urges. Within it, booties were called, muffins were buttered and bloody revenge was contemplated. It was quite a year.

December 02, 2021
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  • GPB Newsroom
GPB  NPR

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  • Music Features

The 50 Best Albums Of 2021

NPR's annual list of the year's best albums is full of work by musicians who hit career peaks, discovered their voices or willed something new into reality.

December 01, 2021
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  • GPB Newsroom
Steve Inskeep spoke to Raekwon about the new book, the difficulties of his upbringing and the trappings of success.

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  • Music Interviews

'From Staircase to Stage': Raekwon on growing up in N.Y. and the Wu-Tang Clan

In his new memoir, From Staircase to Stage, rapper Raekwon recalls watching as that relatively serene New York City neighborhood rapidly declined, succumbing to the wildfires of the crack epidemic.

November 30, 2021
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep and
  • Vince Pearson
In the ways he memorialized his own family and held up his city, Dolph demonstrated his understanding of people as more than the sum of our generosity or our flaws.

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  • Music Features

Young Dolph saw the good in people

Remembering Young Dolph, the Memphis rapper who uplifted collaborators, fans and family

November 24, 2021
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  • Jewel Wicker
GPB  NPR

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  • Music

Tierra Whack and J Melodic make the leap from 'Whack World' to something otherworldly

The try-anything rapper and her soft-spoken but dedicated producer, who have developed a bond to match their intense work routine, share a preview of a new song that takes them into uncharted terrain.

November 20, 2021
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  • GPB Newsroom
The Memphis Police Department attained surveillance video showing two armed suspects getting out of a white two-door Mercedes Benz and approaching rapper Young Dolph while he was inside Makeda's Cookies.

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  • Music

Memphis police release photos of 2 suspects wanted over Young Dolph's shooting death

The images show two suspects getting out of a Mercedes armed with guns and wearing sweatshirts, then approaching the rapper, police said.

November 19, 2021
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  • Jonathan Franklin
GPB  NPR

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  • Music

Rapper Young Dolph is shot and killed in Memphis

Police say officers responded to a shooting at a cookie shop at around 12:30 p.m. where Dolph, was pronounced dead at the scene.

November 17, 2021
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  • Vanessa Romo
GPB  NPR

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  • Music

Westside Gunn and Conductor Williams are perfecting rap's most refined aesthetic

The growing discography made by the Griselda founder and the noir-inspired Kansas City producer reflect the way these two visionaries have aligned to create something singular.

November 13, 2021
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  • GPB Newsroom
GPB  NPR

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  • Concerts

8 people were killed at Houston's Astroworld Festival after crowd rushed the stage

Authorities in Houston said the victims range in age from 14 to 27, with one unknown. A criminal homicide and narcotics investigation is now underway.

November 07, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman and
  • Deepa Shivaram
Inductee Jay-Z speaks onstage during the 36th Annual Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony

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  • Music News

Barack Obama honors Jay-Z at his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction

The hip hop legend was inducted by the former president and comedian Dave Chappelle. The induction makes Jay-Z one of the few solo rappers to ever be included in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

October 31, 2021
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By:
  • Hazel Cills
Ye, then known as Kanye West, attends the Versace fall 2019 fashion show on Dec. 2, 2018 in New York City.

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  • Music

Kanye West is now officially 'Ye'

The change has been in the works since at least since 2018, when he released a studio album by that name. He has cited its biblical significance as "you," noting "So I'm you, I'm us, it's us."

October 19, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
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