For many rappers it’s been a way to earn instant street cred as they come up with rhymes delivered on the spot, often in complex word battles with other lyricists. Now a new documentary filled with a ...

Rap City. The title alone evokes countless memories of tuning into the beloved BET series, where rappers across the country would make an appearance to talk about their music and, more importantly, ...

In the worldwide cultural juggernaut that is hip-hop, it's widely understood that the spontaneous lyrical improvisation of freestyle rap is the genre's purest form of creation. More often than not, ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Javier Hasse is a cannabis and psychedelics reporter and book author. Tens of millions of social media followers. Thousands of ...

Freestyle rapper Harry Mack has been entertaining random strangers online with freestyle raps. To celebrate his rising success on YouTube, he... Harry Mack Is Freestyle Rapping For 10 Hours Straight ...

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 ...

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 ...