Trailblazing rapper Boss, who brought West Coast gangsta rap fervor to the Def Jam Recordings roster in the early 1990s, has died. No cause of death has been revealed. She was 54. News of the Detroit ...

The performer, born Lichelle Marie Laws, was known as a hip-hop pioneer in the '90s West Coast music scene Raymond Boyd/Getty Bo$$ at WJPC-FM in Lansing, Illinois in April 1993 Rapper Lichelle Marie ...

Dallas rapper Bobby Sessions made his way from his hometown to the nearby Austin this past week for SXSW. I caught his set at Mass Appeal, Netflix, and Def Jam’s “Live at the BBQ” at Stubb’s on ...

Rapper Boss, whose real name is Lichelle Laws, has died. She was 54. (Raymond Boyd / Getty Images) Lichelle Laws, the musician who became Def Jam's first female rapper under the moniker Boss (stylized ...

On Monday (March 11), reports surfaced in the hip-hop community that 1990's rapper Bo$$ had passed away. Her former record label, Def Jam Recordings, confirmed the passing in an Instagram post on ...

Jack White and Eminem wow fans with a memorable Thanksgiving halftime performance at the Detroit Lions game, now available as 'Live at Ford Field' on streaming platforms. 2 days ago “My heart is ...

Def Jam Rapstar is co-published by Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH and Autumn Games. For more information of Def Jam Rapstar, including all tracks announced to date, please go to ...

Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey formerly known as Mos Def form the group Black Star - (Photo Credit: Eddy "Precise" Lamarre) Rapper Mos Def does not consider Drake’s music to be hip-hop and is more ...

If you’re wondering why you haven’t heard much from hip-hop artist Mos Def lately, it’s because the Brooklyn-born rapper-turned-actor changed his stage name more than two decades ago. It wasn’t the ...

Lichelle Laws, the musician who became Def Jam’s first female rapper under the moniker Boss (stylized as Bo$$), has died. She was 54. Laws’s older sister Jovita Cheryl Moffett confirmed the rapper’s ...

Lichelle Laws, the musician who became Def Jam's first female rapper under the moniker Boss (stylized as Bo$$), has died. She was 54. Laws's older sister Jovita Cheryl Moffett confirmed the rapper's ...