From Run-DMC’s Queens classic to De La Soul’s subversive storytelling, to “Trap Christmas”…rap has always celebrated the holidays on its own terms. Christmas in Hip-Hop has never been ...

With the Christmas break now well and truly over and forgotten, here are five key developments in the music business since ...

So he sat on his rhymes, and didn’t try again until he was released in early October, after serving his time for a gun charge ...

Black artists have contributed to the most vital Christmas music of our time through soulful classics and energetic R&B holiday songs. These songs are more than just soundtracks for the holidays. They ...

Did you know that the first-ever hit single from pioneering Atlanta hip-hop duo OutKast, 1993's "Player's Ball", was a Christmas song?

At the halfway point of the 2025-26 NBA season, the Golden State Warriors are fighting to escape their mediocre record.

Every week, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the previous seven days, awarding one ...

American pianist and composer Chloe Flower is on a mission to get young people into classical music. She’s doing it by collaborating with rap, house and pop stars, and creating her own genre of music, ...

Boosie Badazz has slammed Kodak Black for dissing him in a new song titled Christmas Eve. Badazz called out the diss track as ...

Snoop Doggy Dogg is ready to seal the honmoon this Christmas! On Friday, the rap king announced that the singing stars behind KPop Demon Hunters and country queen Lainey Wilson will join him at the ...

There’s a star pianist in Walnut Creek, new shows at Santa Clara’s Triton Museum and a two-day tribute to David Bowie.

Scott had been on the run since prosecutors indicted him in April of last year. Evvie Smith, Tre’Shawn’s mother, said her own ...