After bubbling under the surface for nearly a decade, the clash between Kendrick Lamar and Drake has erupted into the most impactful Hip-Hop duel in recent years. This is a far cry from the Hip-Hop ...

‘Hip hop on trial’; this was the name given to a global debate that took place in London just two weeks ago, the third in a series of discussions hosted by Intelligence Squared in association with ...

2024 was a crazy year, but it was actually a really good year for Hip-Hop. Check out some of the best albums of the year, but we left space for you to tell us YOUR favorite! 2024 was an insane year ...

As far as late-’90s and early-2000s black cinema goes, Brown Sugar is probably my favorite movie. The Wood is as close a second as you can get, much in the way that Reasonable Doubt is my favorite Jay ...

An elegiac retelling of rap’s origins, Hip-Hop Is History also ends with a sense of hope. Buffy (Darren Robinson) of the Fat Boys in Chicago, 1985. This Juneteenth featured, among other festivities, a ...

Despite how they’ve at times been ideologically pitted against one another, country music and hip-hop are often compared as the two forms of pop music that speak most directly to the everyday problems ...

James Van Der Beek and Eric Dane also forgotten during the emotional tribute segment. “Rap City was a religion. The hosts were the disciples,” former Def Jam President Kevin Liles said in Welcome To ...

Music industry veteran Kawan “KP” Prather, an Atlanta native, has a prediction on where the city’s hip-hop influence is headed: “I think it’s gonna be a minute before Atlanta creates the new thing.” ...

The music of Kansas City's most prolific rap artist, Tech-N9ne, has been featured in film, TV and video games like Madden NFL 06. He's helped lead the city's hip-hop culture for more than three ...

Inside Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College, where southern gentility meets raw academic ambition, Dr. Joycelyn Wilson holds court with the easy confidence of someone who’s mastered the delicate art of ...

Rap beefs have long been a part of hip-hop, from Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur to Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake. But one rapper who has long feuded with a fellow 2000s music star says he thinks they’re ...