Clockwise from bottom left: Greg Mack mans the boards; Mack, left, with Will Smith and Tatyana Ali; Eazy-E and Mack; Janet Jackson and Mack; Andre Fuller, Big Daddy Kane and Mack; Steve Campfield, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Less than 90 days after its launch, Detroit-based Sports Rap Radio, touted as the nation’s first sports-talk radio station completely owned by and featuring African American talent, has come to an end ...

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 ...

A landmark event in Black history — no, scratch that, American history — will take place in our city Monday morning. And you can listen in. Sports Rap Radio, the nation’s first sports-talk radio ...

Billboard assesses the rap field at the 2026 Grammys and predicts the nominees for best rap performance, rap song and melodic rap performance.

The young rapper-producer charges into corporate headquarters like a revolutionary soldier storming a state armory. This is Dr. Dre, stepping to the notoriously menacing Death Row Records CEO Suge ...