Hip-hop is in a complicated place right now. It’s not the dominant force it once was, but it remains the engine of popular music, with flashier, more global genres borrowing its strategies, sounds, ...

At 18, Malaki Moser is still carving out his place in the world. He doesn’t have all the answers, he said, but he knows who does — God. The Reeds community teen wants to use his budding Christian rap ...

If you were a kid in the 1990s, I bet at least one of these four songs influenced the music taste you have today.