You really don’t see country and hip-hop collaborations that much nowadays. It’s a shame, really. These two genres might not have a ton in common musically, but they’re different enough to really ...

Music veteran Clever's emergence in country's mainstream proves how quickly pushing into the genre's hip-hop adjacency has yielded a stream of intriguing independent artists uniquely prepared to ...

In 2024, 20% of the Recording Industry Association of America's gold- and platinum-selling albums and singles claimed Nashville's music industry in their development. That surge has balanced the music ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Every time country and hip-hop collide, the Sam Hunt bat-signal goes up. So it was no surprise that last month Hunt found himself in the home studio of his longtime producer Zach ...

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Nicknamed "The Mother Church of Country Music" and a National Historic Landmark, the Ryman Auditorium was instrumental in the creation of bluegrass, becoming an important fixture for country music and ...

So, maybe hip-hop is dying? Currently, out of the four major streaming platforms, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube Music, Apple Music is the only platform with hip-hop/rap as the top ...

Hip-Hop didn’t invent rebellion, it inherited the fire from H. Rap Brown long before the culture had a name. Growing up, my parents were not overtly activists or political. But there were clues. One ...