Rip her out the plastic, rapper Latto is acting brand new—and keeping it real when it comes to the sexually explicit nature of lyrics from today’s women rappers. Speaking in a new cover interview for ...

A Florida teacher was suspended for assigning explicit rap lyrics to her students as homework. The eighth-grade teacher printed out lyrics to Lil Wayne's "6 Foot 7 Foot," which feature racial slurs ...

The words, ubiquitous in rap and hip-hop, have become cultural daggers, with calls from inside and outside the music industry to curb their use. The casual use of the words bitch and ho has long been ...

This story was adapted from reporting for Episode 4 of Louder Than A Riot, Season 2. For more about sexual agency in hip-hop, including the pioneering raunch of Miami icon Trina and her complex ...

A parent’s complaint about sexually explicit rap lyrics played at a middle school dance has prompted a review of the type of music played at such events, Augusta County’s top school administrator said ...

Young Thug performs onstage during the 2022 SXSW Conference at Waterloo Park in Austin on March 17, 2022. Young Thug performs onstage during the 2022 SXSW Conference at Waterloo Park in Austin on ...

The Supreme Court is hearing a case this week about Anthony Elonis, a Pennsylvania man who was sentenced to four years in prison for posting “explicit rap lyrics” to his Facebook page that expressed ...