"Rap" Blogs & Blog Posts

The Jubalaires were a gospel quartet from the forties that sang with a "rhythmic, rhyming style," which has been described as an early version of rapping. Today I learned that their 1946 song "Noah" is considered the first recorded instance of r...

Watching hip-hop's evolution over the years has been spellbinding. Since its inception in the mid to late 70s, rap music has consistently mutated with each passing decade. With every transition, rap always feels as if it's losing a vital element. In...

This video of the First Baptist Church Senior Adult Choir is making the rounds again on social media. I saw it years ago but took another look, and it was even funnier than I remember. Behold this church choir tackling the following rap and...

Back in 2003, the fan-favorite wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage released a hip-hop album titled "Be a Man." Why? Who knows. There wasn't even any notable producer attached. CMJ Magazine said Savage's flow was "surprisingly tight for a middle-aged mu...

The crime is not what I am interested in sharing. That a new family felt the need to steal a stroller is terrible, and the $1500 price of the stroller is the real crime. What I do find worthy of sharing is a newscaster slyly dropping "bust a move" in...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by DJ Akademiks (@akademiks) There have been too many tragic deaths in the world of hip-hop over the last decade. Granted, to the outside observer, there are always a staggering number of fatal...

You don't have to celebrate Hanukkah to get a contact high from Jewish rapper MC Flow's 2015 "Pot in the Latkes." It's a catchy tale about how she was able to forgot about Christmas after ingesting "potkes," kosher cannabis-infused latkes, and get in...