Created with good intention, Detroit, MI-based Sports Rap Radio has been shut down. “[This is] history-making,” Parker told CBS News at the time. “[It’s] groundbreaking, [and] we just believe that the ...

Young black people prefer to speak in rap lyrics. At least, that's what Ben Carson seems to believe. Ben Carson recently put out a radio rap ad called “Freedom” to appeal to black voters in a ...

Less than 90 days after its launch, Detroit-based Sports Rap Radio, touted as the nation’s first sports-talk radio station completely owned by and featuring African American talent, has come to an end ...

Too much local success can be as bad as not enough, so the Asheville hip-hop duo Free Radio is scaling back their appearances in the city this year. Which makes their show at Grey Eagle April 24 all ...

Tito Lopez’s “Mama Proud” has that rough, bubbling with passion intensity symptomatic of MCs too big for their hometown, but maybe a little too ragged to really break through. We’ll see. “Mama Proud” ...

Two of 2015’s hottest records came from cities that rarely—close to never—get scanned for producing the next big hit. Louisville, Kentucky native Bryson Tiller’s “Don’t” gained him instant pop star ...

A telling bumper occasionally pops up on our No. 1 radio home for hip-hop and R&B here in Baltimore. It identifies the station and then proudly announces that the playlist features “all shades of R&B.