Hip-hop’s future may be digital, but its roots remain human. From AI-generated beats to cloned voices and machine-assisted lyrics, artists are rewriting the rules — and reshaping independence.

Priddy Ugly has been named the country's most successful hip hop artist of 2025. AI chatbot, Grok, noted the rapper's achievements among his peers.

Timbaland recently used hip-hop artist K Fresh's beat to train his artificial intelligence music platform, Suno — but without ...

While Timbo's artist isn't a rapper, his influence in the music culture could inspire the next AI hip-hop artist. But we had an AI rapper, and it failed miserably.

LL Cool J is on a mission to ensure the world never forgets the impact of hip-hop. The word “legendary” doesn’t feel like it could describe, let alone quantify, his legacy. In 1984, the man born James ...