No matter the genre- lyrics hold power. Whether the words to your favorite song praise God or celebrate life and love, there’s no denying that many times one of the strongest influences can be a ...

When you think about love in rap, Common's "The Light" is an essential example. From his album "Like Water for Chocolate", Common raps heartfelt lines of devotion over a mesmerizing J Dilla beat, ...

Researchers found that lyrics in each of five popular music genres were becoming more repetitive and charged with negative emotions. Desi Mendoza via Wikimedia Commons In recent years, the growing ...

The use of artificial intelligence has taken the rap game by storm seemingly overnight. With each passing day, more hip-hop songs have been surfacing that use the voices of some of the biggest names ...

Twenty-four years ago today, Toby Keith was at the top of the country chart with a song Blake Shelton's label rejected.

Sometimes it’s hard to say out loud how we’re really feeling, but the best songs are able to take all those emotions and set them to music. When it comes to romance, though, hip-hop love songs are ...

If you meet McKinley Phipps now, he's a far cry from the 20-year-old, chart-climbing rapper known as Mac, signed to music mogul Master P's No Limit Records, whose 1998 album "Shell Shocked" reached No ...

Music is a common mnemonic device, which may explain why you remember 1980s song lyrics but not a lick of what you’ve studied ...

As the high-profile criminal trial of rapper Young Thug began this week, Black rappers who have had their lyrics used against them by prosecutors as evidence of criminal activity have renewed calls to ...