The history of rap music, all things considered, doesn't go back too far. The genre came out of New York in the late 1970s ...

Visit an online experience on the origins of hip-hop by the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Check out the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap that includes more than 120 ...

And over the course of rap music history, there have been some truly incredible features on songs. When people talk about the greatest feature verses on a rap song ever, this one always comes up.

The term flyting may now be confined to the history books, but the act of flyting shares similarities with a very modern event: the rap battle. In this flyte, as with a rap battle, Dunbar and ...