When JAY-Z released his thirteenth album, you probably didn't think you needed anything else from the rapper. Yet, when news broke a week later that the physical album of 4:44 will feature a bonus ...

A strategic but unforced shutdown of the conscious mind can put the mouth in overdrive and birth a potent rapper. (Credit: Getty Images) One day in the third-grade lunch room I somehow discovered I ...

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JAY-Z has just made 4:44 an album even more people are desperate to get their hands on thanks to one certain bonus song. Blue Ivy Carter's freestyle rap lyrics from "Blue's Freestyle/We Are Family" ...

How much, honestly, does anybody like—as in, want to pay for and sit and listen to—freestyle rap? Even among rap fans (I’m one of them!), who’s taking the long way home on the odd chance of catching a ...

The late Brooklyn rapper Christopher Wallace, better known as The Notorious B.I.G., had the rare ability to craft entire songs in his head on the spot. "More often than not, how well a rapper ...

New York’s hip-hop scene had plenty of surprises in 2014, the most unexpected of which was probably the return of freestyling. What was once considered a niche pastime or endangered art form has found ...

Suddenly, Reverse went in for the kill. He had everyone in the audience throw various items on the floor, ranging from cell phones to sneakers to backpacks. The Cuban rapper then proceeded to ...

"Flow": What academics define as "a subject's complete immersion in creative activity, typified by focused self-motivation, positive emotional valence, and loss of self-consciousness," or, per the ...