Performed in urban clubs and on street corners, “freestyle” hip-hop occurs when rappers perform unwritten and unrehearsed rhymes over an improvised beat. The subgenre gets a thorough treatment in this ...

More than 15 years in the making, the world of improvisational rap is explosively explored in “Freestyle - The Art of Rhyme,” the critically acclaimed authentic look into the life, music, and history ...

Young M.A continues to gear up for the release of her debut album, but ahead of the project dropping, the New York rapper stopped by Power 106's L.A. Leakers on Monday (Aug. 20) to spit a new ...

While attending Jeezy's birthday party at the reopening of club LIV in Miami on Sunday (Oct. 7) night, Busta Rhymes and comedian Marlon Wayans went head-to-head in a freestyle battle. Although the two ...

From neighborhood ciphers to the most notorious MC battles, "Freestyle: the Art of Rhyme" captures the electrifying energy of improvisational hip-hop--the rarely recorded art form of rhyming ...

Imagine a Las Vegas Strip show where no one knows their lines. A show where the plot changes every night based on who’s in the room. In a nutshell, that’s Freestyle Love Supreme, the live hip-hop ...

It’s been a while since Shia LaBeouf has done anything really stupid, so naturally it’s time for a video of him freestyle rapping to surface. Dropping lyrical couplets with all the linguistic agility ...

Hip-hop gets a bad rap (pun intended) at least in part because its perception by the mainstream is either that of the thug-life, gangsta types who become movie stars and often end up dead, or the ...

With his new youth rhyme-writ- ing program, Imaginarium: Flip the Script!, Asheville-based, Grammy Award-winning children’s hip-hop artist Secret Agent 23 Skidoo will use classic rite-of-passage ...

Based on that one instance, the worlds of high tech and hip-hop seemed to go together about as well as oil and water, or Master P and tastefully designed, understated album covers. But the makers of ...