Rap battles reward confidence, but these pushed it to the edge. Each clip shows how fast control can slip when emotions take over. The energy in the room changes instantly, and everyone feels it.

21 Savage said he believed Drake came through his feud with Kendrick Lamar relatively unscathed, but still revealed he told the Toronto rapper not to throw himself into the infamous rap battle. Near ...

“We’re not killing anybody,” Benicio del Toro told Paul Thomas Anderson in their early conversations about “One Battle After Another. Those creative discussions eventually led to Anderson changing the ...

Every year, we’re told that hip-hop is in crisis. But if you ask us, it feels like there’s too much heat to keep up with. What’s lost on the chart-watchers lamenting rap’s mainstream lull is that the ...

Recently, in casual conversations, I’ve been asked for my opinion about the October report that “No Rap Songs Are in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990” more so than my ...

And finally, nearly two hours into a perplexing muddle of a storyline, we have some clarity of thought. No, dear, we want to tell Ella, played by the lovely Emma Mackey, who is truly the only reason ...

“I can’t trust my brain right now,” says our hero, Ella, deep into James L. Brooks’ bafflingly disjointed, uneven, unfunny and illogical “Ella McCay.” And finally, nearly two hours into a perplexing ...

On December 9, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a directive that instantly captured public attention far beyond the bureaucracy of Washington. The US State Department would stop using the sans ...

With an experimental and maxed-out sound, bold new MCs are emerging from all corners of the UK – and with US rap in the doldrums, the time is ripe for another British Invasion It’s early November and ...

For his first original feature in some 15 years, James L “I can’t trust my brain right now,” says our hero, Ella, deep into James L. Brooks’ bafflingly disjointed, uneven, unfunny and illogical “Ella ...