Launching the Spring 2026 semester, the Ivy League university will introduce the course highlighting how women emcees ...

Take Mass Appeal’s “Legend Has It” movement. On paper, it was one of the boldest, most authentic Hip-Hop statements of the year. A celebration of legacy, excellence, and longevity. But here’s what ...

Numerous books have been written about the origins of hip-hop and its evolution from an underground phenomenon to a global force. While its growth since the 1990s had been well-documented, here are ...

The LSU Dance team took home 2nd place for their viral hip-hop routine paying tribute to Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Halftime ...

Fifty years into hip-hop, we've gotten used to decades of headlines proclaiming the genre's culture is homophobic and misogynistic — that generations of queer talents were forced to the peripheries ...

Michie Mee celebrates getting her own Canada Post stamp alongside Maestro Fresh Wes and Muzion for Black History Month.

August 11 is National Hip-Hop Celebration Day! The celebration was made official by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer last July, following the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. In a speech on the Senate ...

Fifty years after critics dismissed hip-hop as a passing fad, Grammy winner LL COOL J is taking viewers back to the genre's authentic New York roots with his new docuseries "Hip Hop Was Born Here," ...

Politicians once abhorred rap stars. Now they're embracing them. Feb. 14, 2013 -- In the 1990s Washington was polarized on many of the same issues as today: taxes, the economy, gun control. But there ...

Sometimes it’s hard to say out loud how we’re really feeling, but the best songs are able to take all those emotions and set them to music. When it comes to romance, though, hip-hop love songs are ...

The class will highlight the impact of women emcees like Lil Kim and Cardi B, while examining the culture’s history through a ...