When the excitement over Detox started up again last year, Dr. Dre even teased his next, next album — an instrumental project called The Planets, with songs inspired by the “personalities of each ...

It's fair to say that – at least in Charlotte – it's not news when a church opens. But a new church in Huntersville is doing something different to get young people in the door. It's using hip-hop to ...

Grammy-winning artist and "hip-hop pastor" Hezekiah Walker has numerous gospel hits. His latest, "Better," is No. 1 on Billboard's top gospel songs. Walker, a singer, composer and choir leader joined ...

Montreal producer-of-the-moment Kaytranada continues his tradition of slyly Nas-honoring nomenclature (his original name was Kaytradamus) with a new beat tape, Instrumental Hip Hop Is Dead, debuted ...

Christian hip-hop typically has two different types of rappers. There’s the youth pastor who uses hip-hop to spread the gospel to youth, and there’s the reformed hustler who zealously uses the gospel ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Hip Hop artist Ken the Messenger gets vulnerable in his inspirational new album ...

As the Christian music industry has grown -- the sector sold some 44 million copies last year -- the vehicles that contemporary Christian and gospel artists use to convey their message have evolved ...

Rap pioneer KRS-One has bigger plans for Hip-Hop as he’s announced that he will soon release The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument, a 600-page book that examines the spirituality of the culture.

Like many hip-hop artists, KRS-One has never shied away from sharing his devout beliefs with fans. He's spoken on behalf of hip-hop's preservation and shaken the validity of old truths. The Brooklyn ...

Long before Chance The Rapper and Kanye West reflected on their relationship with God in their rhymes—and backed them up with tambourines, organs and their soulful, respective choirs—hip-hop has had ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...