Although the Grammy Awards came out in 1959, the Recording Academy didn’t debut the Best Rap Performance award until 1989, a year in which it was awarded to DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince for ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT RAP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

While there are plenty of recent rap songs that sampled early 2000s sounds, they mostly rip a loop and put it under modern drums. “Tweaker,” with its NOLA bounce-inspired percussion and ...

The crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party continued as the National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, and the embattled National Vice-Chairman for the South-East, Ali Odefa, rejected the ...

PDP delegation led by the chairman, Dr Martin Chukwunwike; Deputy Chairman, Stephen Oruruo; Secretary, Chukwudi Nnadozie; Publicity Secretary, Chief Uche Obute and other top party officials ...

The National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has affirmed the new leadership of the party in Rivers State, following the court’s removal of the Aaron Chukwuemeka ...

Abia State Governor Alex Otti has described the leaders of pensioners in the state as dishonest persons leading honest people. This is even as he accused the main opposition party in the state ...

It’s proving to be much more than a novelty. By Jon Caramanica How will rap hits get made in 2025? Judging by the year’s first unexpected hip-hop breakthrough, the answer is by accident ...

Kola Ologbodiyan, former national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has blamed the crisis rocking the party on the ruling All Progressives Congress. Ologbodiyan agreed ...

Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are trying to assert their dominance as the party’s main power brokers. This followed their first most daring move to whittle down the influence ...

Now 35, he was released on licence in June 2023. Reports in the Sun newspaper claim he is TEN, a drill rap artist whose music often features violent themes, and who conceals his identity with a ...

The PDP has faced internal crises before and after the 2023 elections, with Damagum facing criticism for the party’s struggles since taking over from Iyorchia Ayu. Sunday Ude-Okoye has been ...