This week, the hip-hop community was consumed by another violent verbal feud, which so often seep to the surface when two of its leading protagonists publicly disagree. Rapper B.o.B and respected ...

Hop’s pioneers through philanthropy or sharpening his pen in the booth, Nas remains one of the culture’s most vital figures in 2025 ...

Clover Hope is well known for documenting pop culture icons through her many cover stories, profiles, and interviews. The prolific journalist and author took her work to new heights in February 2021 ...

Audio Push is one of the new young crews leading Hip-Hop for the West Coast after making teens move to the hit single “Teach Me How To Jerk.” Determined to be respected for their lyricism, as well as, ...

California bred group The Pack burst onto the mainstream in 2006 with their breakout hit “Vans” which not only ushered in a movement of dance called “jerkin,” but also ushered in the infamous skinny ...

As hip-hop marks its monumental 50th anniversary on August 11, Apple Music is joining the celebration with a series of exciting initiatives that pay homage to the genre’s legacy. To honor this pivotal ...

A man dressed in black stood on the south side of The Oval. A beat played on the speaker stationed beside him as he held a microphone up to the golden mask covering his face. With a stage presence ...

On August 10, a five-part audio documentary series titled Can You Dig It? A Hip Hop Origin Story will release on Audible. The series will be narrated by Chuck D, the world-famous frontman of the 1980s ...

Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, Public Enemy and Salt n Pepa (Credit: Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images, Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, Michael Putland/Getty Images) In August 1973, the ...

Fifty years ago this month, some teenagers threw a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Today that party is considered by many "the birth of hip-hop." 50 years of hip-hop: A genre born from a backyard ...

In a promotional segment for his Christian conservative radio program, Right Side Radio, Mississippi Republican Senate candidate Chris McDaniel blamed rising gun violence on a “hip-hop” culture that ...