Megan Thee Stallion onstage in June at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, a stop on her Hot Girl Summer Tour. Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Live Nation hide caption
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Megan Thee Stallion performs during the 2022 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival. Rich Fury/Getty Images hide caption
Flo Milli performs a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR Music in Washington, D.C. hide caption
"Do I truly feel like hip-hop is dead? No, I don't," Questlove tells NPR. "However, I do believe that the landscape and the rules have changed. And some of its participants don't know it." Christian Germoso hide caption
Questlove reflects on changes in culture and music with his book 'Hip-Hop Is History'
Don Toliver, a Travis Scott signee who quickly defined his own lane, takes his half-sung raps to colorful new realms on HARDSTONE PSYCHO. Jack Dalton/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Kendrick Lamar performs during "The Pop Out — Ken & Friends," his June 19 concert event at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif. Timothy Norris/Getty Images for pgLang, Amazon/Getty Images North America hide caption
Travis Scott performs in Austin, Texas, in October 2018. Scott was arrested on Thursday for drunken intoxication at the Miami Beach Marina. Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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For most of the film, hampton is a grinning, tomboy femme fly on the wall. She’s much more in documentarian mode than interviewer. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Eminem, performing here during the Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show at SoFi Stadium in 2022, returns to the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week with "Houdini." Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images hide caption
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Vince Staples' latest album, Dark Times, represents a new direction in an already singular major-label rap career. Shaniqwa Jarvis/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
2024 Tiny Desk Contest winner The Philharmonik performs a Tiny Desk concert Monday, May 21, 2024, at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Michael Zamora hide caption
Rapsody's album Please Don't Cry functions as a reintroduction to the rapper — long defined by her technique, now revealing some of the real person behind that prowess. Jhalin Knowles/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
A sixth lawsuit against the rap mogul alleges that he drugged a model before assaulting her. Scott Dudelson/Getty Images hide caption
Bad Bunny performs on SNL on Oct. 21, 2023. NBC/WIll Heath/NBC hide caption
Bob James performs a Tiny Desk concert. Elizabeth Gillis/NPR hide caption
Since Ventura filed her lawsuit against Combs in November 2023, the mogul has faced allegations of assault in four additional suits. Paras Griffin/Getty Images hide caption
Children from Cork, Ireland sing "The Spark," in a music video. Creative Ireland/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
Gunna performs during the event "A Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop" on Nov. 8, 2023, at YouTube Theater in Inglewood, Calif. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for The Recording Academy hide caption
Ana Tijoux performs a Tiny Desk concert. Zayrha Rodriguez/NPR hide caption
Rapper Tupac Shakur performs at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois in March 1994. Raymond Boyd/Getty Images hide caption