2 Live Crew frontman Uncle Luke is demanding recognition for what he says is his rightful place in Hip-Hop history. In a fiery Instagram post, the lMiami bass pioneer and producer declared that he ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from IDK, Reason, and TiaCorine. The avalanche of new releases in hip-hop continued this week, albeit at a slightly slower rate ...

Hip-Hop has long been a platform for artists to express their struggles, triumphs and deepest emotions. Hip-Hop has long been a platform for artists to express their struggles, triumphs and ...

The year in hip-hop was defined by an epic battle between two of the genre’s biggest stars, Kendrick Lamar and Drake. Kendrick’s decisive victory over Drizzy culminated in one of the year’s ...

First, let's go back to the beginnings: Hip hop (or hip-hop) is a culture that originated in the Bronx in the 1970s. Dance was a form of expression of this cultural and political movement from the ...

I’m a rapper. I also work as a professor of hip-hop. I work at the intersection of artmaking and academic research. I write music as part of a greater effort to challenge antiquated ideas about ...

By Katie Atkinson Executive Digital Director, West Coast Megan Thee Stallion came into Tuesday’s (Oct. 15) broadcast of the 2024 BET Hip Hop Awards as the top nominee, but Kendrick Lamar ended ...

Hip-hop’s official 50th birthday was 11 August 2023 ... Caragh McKay is a contributing editor at Wallpaper* and was watches & jewellery director at the magazine between 2011 and 2019. Caragh’s current ...

Cassie Ventura is not the first survivor of hip-hop’s abuse. Unfortunately, she will not be the last. In the months since Ventura filed a federal lawsuit against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs for rape ...

Fifty years since Kool Herc’s legendary DJ set at his sister’s party in the Bronx kickstarted hip hop, the world has changed dramatically. Back in the day, labels and radio were the ...

(Elías Valverde II / Staff Photographer) Generational differences should bond hip hop artists – and fans – as they celebrate the genre’s 50-year history, artist Big Daddy Kane told an ...

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many ...