As the old saying goes, all rappers want to be athletes and all athletes want to be rappers. There’s a long and fascinating history of the hip-hop and sports worlds overlapping—whether it’s All-Stars ...

Hip-hop originated in the Bronx, serving as a medium for Black artists to express struggles related to systemic issues like poverty, violence, and racism; rap lyrics are often misinterpreted in legal ...

Two New York state lawmakers are set to unveil new legislation this week aimed at making it harder for prosecutors to introduce rap lyrics as evidence in criminal trials, Rolling Stone has learned.

Drake lost, but artistic freedom won last week when a federal court in New York dismissed the rapper’s case against UMG Recordings. The decision did more than end one of rap’s most publicized legal ...

Eric Malmi received his PhD from Aalto University in 2018 with a dissertation that developed AI methods for linking historical records and family trees. At Google DeepMind he has developed Gemini ...