Recognition of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary has been in full force throughout 2023, but writer Kiana Fitzgerald’s celebration started almost a year early, in February 2022. That’s when she began ...

I'm definitely not going to profess to be an expert on the difference between hip hop and rap. In fact, I'm generally timid about making claims about any kind of music. There are so many people who ...

Folk that love rap music used to be the ones getting gifts during the holidays, now we giving the gifts to our little ones. Still, doing that last-minute Christmas shopping for your little ones? Well, ...

From runway-ready style to lightning-fast rhymes, these trailblazing women set trends in hip-hop while redefining what it means to be a true rap icon. 18 days ago Comic books’ ties to hip-hop are just ...

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 ...

“So, when did you fall in love with Hip Hop?” is a question that Sidney (Sanaa Lathan), a Hip Hop journalist, poses at the very beginning of the 2002 film, Brown Sugar. And, consequently, everyone ...

From detailed analyses of the Wu-Tang Clan's legacy to memoirs from legendary MCs, 2019 was a great year for books centered around hip-hop. Here are 15 great hip-hop books published this year. In the ...

Hip-hop in its earliest incarnations was an experiential thing — not just because rappers and DJs had yet to secure the backing of major labels, but because their work depended on the texture and ...

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“So, when did you fall in love with Hip Hop?” is a question that Sidney (Sanaa Lathan), a Hip Hop journalist, poses at the very beginning of the 2002 film, Brown Sugar. And, consequently, everyone ...