Independent labels are no longer fringe players in the music industry—they’ve become a powerful global force in the recorded ...

Troy Carter bought Pop Art Records, the Philly label behind Roxanne Shante's first diss track and Salt-N-Pepa's debut.

(CNN) — Universal Music Group is requesting to dismiss Drake’s federal defamation lawsuit against the label over Kendrick Lamar’s blockbuster song “Not Like Us,” saying in a legal filing that the ...

Universal Music Group is firing back at Drake after he filed a lawsuit against them for alleged defamation. After the Canadian rapper — whose real name is Aubrey Graham — sued the record label for ...

Hip-hop is a hypochondriac. Since its first records, the genre has reimagined and revised its own Edenic myth. For every Golden Age, there’s a tin present, allegedly limping from commercial ...