Fifty years after it was created in New York City’s Bronx borough, hip hop is a multi-billion dollar industry that doubles as a powerful political tool for Black Americans. The music for a ...

Kendrick Lamar is the overwhelming favorite, but the remaining contenders - Tyler, the Creator, Clipse, GloRilla, and JID - ...

In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...

There’s an old saying “There’s nothing new under the sun”, which we often write off as a figure of speech. However, when you recognize something you’re almost certain you’ve seen or heard before, ...

4. During her October 25, 2014, debut on “Saturday Night Live,” hosted by Jim Carrey, Iggy Azalea performed “Black Widow” ...

It was been well over 30 years since Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest said, “Rap is not pop if you call it that then stop” on the pioneering quartet’s seminal 1991 single “Check The Rhime.” In the ...

The Bridgeport-based bUG — a.k.a. Kenny Mercer — raps like every Beastie Boy rolled into one. And much as the Beastie Boys were punk rockers first, Mercer’s career started on the regional hardcore ...

Iconic hip-hop pioneers Cheryl “Salt” James and Sandra “Pepa” Denton of Salt-N-Pepa claim that Universal Music Group has removed some of their biggest hits from streaming platforms amid an ongoing ...

Watch the “Country Grammar” hitmaker take over the stage in ATL. The 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards aired on Tuesday, October 5 from Atlanta’s Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Missouri-bred rapper Cornell ...

Netflix has insisted its new documentary about Sean "Diddy" Combs, produced by rapper 50 Cent, is "not a hit piece or an act ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. The Hip-Hop Summit Action Network’s 2005 Financial Empowerment National ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write for, and about, the up-and-coming musician. Over the past week, the idea of collaboration has taken on a different meaning ...