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January 24, 2023 | 3:32 PM

Fight The Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

Discover the factors that led to the birth of hip hop and how it has evolved since its first hit in 1982.

By Christina Zeiders

October 8, 2021 | 5:18 AM

Meek Mill’s ‘Expensive Pain’ comes with a heavy cost

Feelings of uncertainty, along with fears of distrust and betrayal created from the ghosts of his past, have been seared into his new album, “Expensive Pain.”

By Gary Gerard Hamilton/The Associated Press

April 9, 2021 | 12:49 PM

Rapper and actor DMX dead at 50

DMX had a signature rasp to his voice. He delivered his lines with a desperate aggression that propelled his debut album It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot to multi-platinum level sales.

By Andrew Limbong/NPR

October 3, 2019 | 5:19 AM

Three charged with providing drugs that killed Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller

Miller, 26, died of an accidental overdose of the powerful opioid fentanyl, along with cocaine and alcohol.

By Andrew Dalton/The Associated Press

September 5, 2019 | 5:09 AM

Feds: Man sold Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller drugs before overdose death

It's alleged Cameron James Pettit gave Miller counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with the powerful opioid fentanyl.

By Andrew Dalton/The Associated Press

May 29, 2018 | 12:50 PM

WITF Music: Milan Credle

By Joe Ulrich

January 25, 2017 | 12:57 AM

Top court reviews free speech case of man’s anti-police rap

By Mark Scolforo/The Associated Press

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