Music historians agree that the birth of hip-hop culture happened on 11 August 1973 in an apartment in the Bronx, a New York City borough. Since then, the movement has gone through five decades of ...

France has long been the largest market for rap outside of the US but it has been noticeably absent from the country's mainstream awards. The first awards ceremony in France for rap, R&B and Afrobeats ...

Francois Hollande is to hire gangsta rap expert, Pierre Evil aka Pierre-Yves Bocquet as his new speech writer. Reuters/Amazon Facing the lowest approval rates for a president in modern French history, ...

This is a small section of a far longer text about music, called "Some Musical Notes" which was originally published on the old endangered phoenix site. It was published at the beginning of 2006.

A French rap star has been charged with assault after a brawl at a Paris shop owned by a rival rapper left a young man fighting for his life in the latest chapter of an ongoing feud between two of the ...