We're continuing our celebration of Black History Month by highlighting Hip Hop's Unsung Heroes who helped shape the culture without always receiving credit by mainstream audiences. Hip hop didn’t ...

Northeastern’s Murray Forman explores aging in hip-hop in his new book, drawing on interviews with Grandmaster Caz, Ice-T and LL Cool J.

A genre essential, Jonathan Abrams tells the story of five decades of hip-hop using over three hundred interviews conducted over three years with the DJs, executives, producers, and artists who both ...

Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school's "first" hip-hop professor. Even if the job title and the historic nature of the appointment might ...

Six-time Grammy Award-winning drummer and producer Questlove is digging deep into the roots of hip-hop and uncovering how the genre has impacted culture. He explains it all in his new book "Hip-Hop is ...

Black Sheep Dropped Their Debut LP 'A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing' 35 Years Ago 'A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing' 35 Years ...

We're closing out Black History Month 2025 looking back on cultural milestones that broke barriers, redefined culture, & proved Hip Hop's dominance. Prior to becoming one of the most popular music ...

Hip Hop Congress at UCLA is bringing more than music into the mix, celebrating the culture beyond the beats. In the ’90s, the Hip Hop Congress was founded under the Afrikan Student Union. Now, HHC ...

At this point, Questlove has so many jobs, it’s not only hard to keep track of them all but one also wonders when exactly he has the time to do so many things without the assistance of a secret twin, ...

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 ...

The crew over at NYMag’s culture site Vulture is currently going over the last century of music in New York City. Their examination covers all the trends, superstars, cultural milestones and hits that ...

Michie Mee can’t stop celebrating after Canada Post called with news that’ll make Hip-Hop history. The Toronto rap legend will appear on an official Canadian stamp this February alongside Maestro ...