Jam Master Jay, the DJ of the pioneering hip-hop group Run-D.M.C., was shot and killed in his recording studio in New York City in 2002. At 37 years old, his murder stunned the music world. Jam Master ...

NPR listeners share the one song that hit them the hardest this year, and tell us why they laughed, cried, or simply couldn’t ...

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is now the longest-running No. 1 song in U.S. chart history. The 1994 modern ...

The song landed its record 20th week atop the Hot 100 this week, blowing past Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" and Lil Nas ...

There is no debate that Queens’ own Nicki Minaj completely modernized rap with her versatility and bold lyricism. Born in ...

What should you give music lovers on your holiday shopping list? Good luck trying to gift someone concert tickets; ticket services can be confounding. There are always gift cards to a streaming ...

The Mariachi Rams are reshaping NFL game day by blending traditional Mexican music with Los Angeles’ hip-hop and rock ...

Federal Border Patrol agents are in North Carolina carrying out arrests in Charlotte and the Triangle. This federal operation is part of a months-long effort by the Trump administration to crackdown ...

Tupac wrote the song after reading about an article in the newspaper. Jeff Pearlman, author of the recently released Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur, says he was instrumental in ...

It was an odd pitch. For nearly 30 years, veteran journalist and author Jeff Pearlman had made his bones as a respected sportswriter with a stacked resume that included seven New York Times ...

Tupac Shakur wasn't always the cool, stylish and tough figure who came to define 1990s hip-hop. As a teenager, he was awkward and eccentric. He wore braces over his gapped, slightly brown teeth and ...