If you haven't heard the rumor news, come out from under your head-high stacks of moldering newspapers and congratulate Jay-Z and Beyonce on their pregnancy! Well, it's really just Beyonce's pregnancy ...

If "December 4th" sounds familiar, it might be because it's a Jay-Z song. And it's a Jay-Z song, as any rap fan can tell you, because it's his birthday. And today's not just ANY birthday, it's his big ...

Ok. This whole thing of mixing Jay-Z’s rhymes with various artists and seeing if the mash up works is getting kind of tired. I mean, the mixes are usually good and it doesn’t really take anything away ...

In their new book Do Remember!: The Golden Era of NYC Hip-Hop Mixtapes, authors Evan Auerbach and Daniel Isenberg trace the history of New York rap through its humblest and most world-alteringly ...

If you’re a regular visitor to these pages, the Ryder Cup needs no explaining. You've been RSVP-ing "no" to September weddings for months. You’ve been devouring every scrap of team-selection intel ...