Fifteen years ago, in her Punk Planet column, Jessica Hopper wrote a piece called “Emo: Where The Girls Aren’t.” The piece went about as viral as a zine column could in 2003, and it’s probably still ...

Moody emo-trap-pop hits such as “Lucid Dreams” are the tracks most associated with SoundCloud king Juice Wrld. But the 21-year-old Chicago rapper, who passed away Sunday morning after an apparent ...

In 2016, a peculiar music movement known as “SoundCloud Rap” began its reign. In 2019, it seemingly ended. The genre was a unique blend of emotionally-charged lyrics being sung and rapped over beats ...

Of all the explosive success of rappers from the so-called “Soundcloud rap” movement, perhaps none has been more successful than Juice WRLD. The “Lucid Dreams” rap crooner took his emo-punk mashup of ...