On April 16, hip-hop hitmaker NLE Choppa wasn’t rapping but rather reading his new book to South Memphis school children.

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 ...

Speaking with the author Arusa Qureshi, in her discerning book Flip the Script: How Women Came To Rule Hip-Hop, Susie explains that the Cookie Crew’s time in America was often spent educating folk, “A ...

The 22-year-old hip-hop hitmaker — born Bryson Potts — was on hand to promote literacy and his new children’s book, “Cricket Stop Cricking,” as he read to students in the school’s ...

In 2024, the publisher of musician Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s “Hip-Hop is History” described it as “the book only Questlove could write: a singular, definitive history” of hip-hop.

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Kyra Gaunt , a Black woman who is a foundational figure in the study of hip-hop , worked as a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Virginia from 1996 to 2002. Her book“The Games ...