It’s not just the lyrics, but the music, the perspective and the community building of hip-hop that have to be studied to understand the genre’s popularity and broad appeal, according to Lauron Kehrer ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

In this essay, the author examines how Hip-Hop can be mobilized in anti-racism educational initatives. The author claims that existing research on Hip-Hop and white adolescents suggests a negative ...

Race relations have been slightly strained in America as of late. Following the unpopular decisions not to indict police officers Darren Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo in the deaths of Michael Brown and ...

Carly Breit is the Senior Platforms Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for four years, writing, editing and producing video content for TikTok. Her work has previously appeared in TIME, ...

When Steph Simon first visited the mansion home of Wyatt Tate Brady, a Ku Klux Klan leader who’s better known as one of Tulsa’s founding fathers, it was to shoot photos and videos for his 2019 rap ...

It's impossible to overstate how golden hip-hop shone in 2017 — the shattered Billboard records, the most-streamed genre recognition from Nielsen. Industry hype aside, rap reflected our collective ...

Back in the mid ’80s, when Wu-Tang Clan first called themselves Force of the Imperial Master, RZA (then known as the Scientist) built a home studio set-up, replete with a four-track recorder and a ...

Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands now. More than ever, rappers are incredibly aware of their chart position. “It’s important,” says Gunna, ...

For most of the 1990s, Adrian "Stretch" Bartos and Robert "Bobbito" Garcia hosted a famous weekly hip-hop radio show on Columbia University's campus radio station, WKCR. Their no-frills, four-hour ...

He’s explaining the influence Dragon Ball Z had on his recent Super Saiyan EP release. “Growing up and watching his character development and seeing the challenges he went through somehow helps me ...