You remove your headphones as you walk through the classroom door — the beat of the song you were just listening to still playing in your head — only to realize that this same song is being played ...

For hip-hop artist Vocab Slick, a Sonoma County native who grew up in Rohnert Park and has lived in Santa Rosa for the past 10 years, the road always leads back home. “There has been a lack of venues ...

Matt Daniels' interactive chart pits the bard against 85 hip-hop artists in a quest to find out: Who's the most verbose of them all?

Listeners can learn new vocabulary through hip-hop music, even though the lyrics may be difficult to understand, according to a study published in the Dec. 21 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE. The ...

Nas and Jay-Z are routinely cited as some of hip hop’s top lyricists, and both rappers have argued that hip hop is a form of poetry. So how do Hov and Nas stack up against the most famous poet in ...