With his fourth studio album, God Does Like Ugly, peeking over the horizon, JID has gone back to one of his favorite standbys ...

For the better part of the past two decades, over 160 rappers who've received the honor of being named an XXL Freshman have ...

Will Smith seemed to reference slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars ceremony during his appearance on Charlie Sloth's ...

Will Smith still has a few words to say about Chris Rock three years after the infamous slap. The Philly rap legend recently delivered a fresh freestyle in which he seemingly disses his former foe.

In the worldwide cultural juggernaut that is hip-hop, it's widely understood that the spontaneous lyrical improvisation of freestyle rap is the genre's purest form of creation. More often than not ...

Last Week, Black Thought set the rap internet on fire when he blazed a ten-minute master class in improvised rap over the instrumental to Mobb Deep’s “Burn” on Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex ...

The Neuroanatomy of Freestyle Rap. By Lindsay Abrams. November 19, 2012. ... the artists listened to an 8-bar instrumental track and were asked to rap ... those ideas are later edited and revised.

Even for the wilderness of human thinking, creative ideas seem to be deliberately designed to defy empirical enquiry. There is something elusive and mystical, perhaps even sacred, about them.

Rapper Eminem, whose lyrics have tended to court controversy over the course of his career, performed a freestyle rap on Thursday's Sway in the Morning show that contained a transphobic slur ...