Tag: rap

However deliberate it was when they were originally created, Spotify’s playlists have got one thing very right in the current streaming age: RapCaviar, Viva Latino and others have become strong brands in their own right....

Hip-hop DJ Charlie Sloth left the BBC’s Radio 1 under a cloud last year, having invaded the stage at an industry-awards ceremony when another broadcaster won the category he was nominated in. At the time, Sloth had already...

Musician Aloe Blacc is the latest to speak out about streaming royalties, in an op-ed piece for Wired that trains its sights squarely on Pandora. “The abhorrently low rates songwriters are paid by streaming services –...

British agency We Make Awesome Sh. is the company responsible for Rap Demonstration, an innovative iPhone app released yesterday for Tinie Tempah

With nearly 10m monthly visitors and a $15m funding round last October, annotated lyrics site Rap Genius is on a roll, and recently added rock, poetry and news verticals. It has faced criticism too, with suggestions that...

Rapt.fm, the Detroit-based startup, wants to get people rap-battling against one another via their webcams, with plans to let others watch in the near future.

It seems the hologrammatic Tupac Shakur who took last weekend's Coachella festival by storm may not have rapped his last.