OPINION: There’s nothing better than a good rap song that tells a story with a beginning, a middle and an end. These songs do that. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views ...

A couple of years back, Ice Cube shared some of his storytelling inspirations with Uproxx for People’s Party With Talib Kweli. He popped back into Uproxx Studios in LA recently, this time, to sit down ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Back in the day, one of the benchmarks for being a great rapper was the ability to tell a story ...

Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah breaks down classic storytelling rap songs and crowns the greatest of them all - from Tupac "Brenda's Got A Baby" vs. Biggie "I Got A Story To Tell" to Eminem "Stan" vs ...

Dallas rapper BigXThaplug killed it at J. Cole’s Dreamville and AllHipHop found new respect for his lyricism. We were not alone as EARTHGANG gave him the ultimate co-sign on the festival grounds.

It’s one thing for a rapper to tell you he had a fucked-up childhood. It’s entirely another for a rapper to describe, in minute and granular detail, exactly why his childhood was so fucked-up. That’s ...

Nearly 30 years after his initial debut as a member of Marley Marl's Juice Crew collective, Kool G Rap has not let time diminish his hunger for giving rappers half his age a tutorial in the art of ...

DMC’s Queens classic to De La Soul’s subversive storytelling, to "Trap Christmas"...rap has always celebrated the holidays on its own terms.

The Rev. Theresa Thames believes in “different” introductions. “If you say something different in your introduction, it gives someone else permission to say ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. One of my favorite things about hip-hop and rap music, in particular, is ...

It's one thing for a rapper to tell you he had a fucked-up childhood. It's entirely another for a rapper to describe, in minute and granular detail, exactly why his childhood was so fucked-up. That's ...