Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Hip Hop, money isn’t just something to chase. It’s a symbol of survival, a status check and a storytelling tool. From mixtapes ...

Young people today don’t separate hip hop from sports. A high schooler wears Jordans to class, blasts Drake before basketball practice, and uses slang that bounced between rap lyrics and ESPN ...

On International Mother Language Day, we look at how rap and hip-hop artists are mixing languages and spreading a vernacular that captures the contemporary Francophone world: multi-ethnic, ...

Slang, a term for the informal, non-standard lingo used in social settings, doesn’t originate in a vacuum. The invented words we casually throw around come from the culture around us, particularly the ...

Hip-hop has always been loud on the surface. Heavy drums, bold hooks, statements that refuse to whisper. Yet beneath that volume there is structure, and not just musical structure. There is design.

Having laid claim to the business ‘hood, G-Dawg, as one is tempted to call him, was free to pursue his beef with its most disrespected inhabitants: the banks. He fractionally raised the percentage ...