“With a premium placed on maturity, it’s easy to forget hip-hop’s roots are in youth. But 22-year-old Fresno rapper Fashawn, who dropped his wave-making debut Boy Meets World when he was still shy of ...

Using the world “destiny” to describe Fashawn's trajectory toward a hip-hop career might be a bit much. He'd prefer to think of it as more of a calling. At 3 years old, Santiago Leyva wanted to be a ...

Every weekday from March 8 to March 19, Song of the Day will showcase a track by an artist playing the South by Southwest music festival. For NPR Music's full coverage of SXSW — complete with ...

“All the shit Nas was experiencing as a 21-year-old in 1994, I’m experiencing that shit now as a 21-year-old in 2010.” It was three years ago when my buddy originally suggested that I do it. This was ...