A lot of people conflate rap metal and nü-metal, but really, how many nü-metal bands rap? Perhaps the presence of turntables and baggy shorts confuses people, but influential acts like Korn, Mudvayne, ...

While early team-ups such as Aerosmith and Run DMC on Walk This Way and Anthrax and Public Enemy on Bring The Noise flexed the potential of rock and hip hop when combined, as the 90s progressed, rap ...

"Duke Ellington said that there's two kinds of music: good and bad." "When the idea to work with House of Pain was presented to us, I said, 'That sounds like fun,'" Hamilton recalls. "I liked hip-hop, ...

On August 18, 1998, two albums were released that would migrate two misunderstood genres from minor curiosities to major cultural forces. But nü-metal and rap-rock weren’t always critically derided, ...

It seems like metal is intermingling with more musical genres than ever these days. Decades removed from rap metal's peak, new metal combinations still appear, notably in the recent surge of trap ...

Run-D.M.C. once hailed themselves as the Kings of Rock, so it's fitting that the pioneering rappers have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. By Jonathan Cohen, The Associated Press ...

The days are growing shorter, the leaves are dying, skies are gray. It’s time to get Twiztid. On Friday, the venerable Michigan-based horror rap-metal duo makes a grand return to the Webster Theater ...

A decade ago, Ice-T was part of the essential music documentary “Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap,” which focuses on the craft of writing and performing the genre. Now, the iconic rapper, heavy ...