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 ...

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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" ...

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 ...

Freestyle rappers such as Eminem and Philadelphia's Cassidy make up and bust out rhymes on the spot — a hugely challenging art form. Now, however, researchers have learned how the brain does it. A new ...

A couple of days ago, Watsky revealed he was attempting to break the Guinness World Record for Longest Continuous Rap Performance and now he’s accomplished that. Watsky has been freestyling for over ...

The ability to freestyle has long been an admirable trait in a rapper, although not necessarily a commercially fruitful one. Lately, it appears the latter condition no longer applies. Take DJ Luke ...

One of the most unique and innovative Acts ever came up short in their bid to win America's Got Talent Season 20, but that doesn't mean what happened on the AGT stage will be forgotten anytime soon.