Slick Rick raised eyebrows at New York Comic Con after warning about mysterious "demons" threatening Hip-Hop's future.
In just the last two years, the threshold for making the top 25 has almost doubled, from $26.1 million to $49.1 million. The ...
Jay-Z's spectacular Bronx homecoming shattered rap concert benchmarks as nearly 137,000 attendees fueled an unprecedented ...
Hip-hop has never been shy about much of anything: money, women, violence, beef. But for a long time, faith was the one thing rappers tended to keep in the background, maybe a “Lord forgive me” ad-lib ...
The state of pop culture has shifted a lot over the decades. The idea of the “rock star” had pretty much faded with the death of Kurt Cobain and the grunge era. Eventually, the battle for cultural ...
I took up the thought experiment on the differences in how Christian Hip Hop artists define their work. Progressing down this unexpected rabbit hole, varying labels began to surface. I was aware there ...
Hip Hop has long been a male-dominated industry, where women have had to fight twice as hard for recognition—whether on the mic, behind the boards, or in the background shaping the culture. Yet, ...
Hip-hop used to be incredibly unkind to its veteran rappers. Rather than prop them up like in other genres, people called them “washed” and a whole lot of other insults. It was always about what was ...
Educators break down how the Bronx School of Hip Hop uses hip-hop’s five elements to power its curriculum for 100 inaugural ...
Hip Hop is seemingly never more than a whisker away from a criminal trial. Even as A$AP Rocky celebrates a not guilty verdict in his recent shooting trial, a number ...
In “California Schemin’,” the actor’s directorial debut, two Scottish rappers pretend to be American to make it in the ...