Today’s rap landscape wouldn’t have been possible without the pioneering role of women MCs. In an era when the field was predominantly male in the ’70s and ’80s, these fearless wordsmiths, including ...

When many people think of hip-hop style, they start in New York or Los Angeles. But don't sleep on Atlanta. Not only has the city become one of the genre's most important cities musically, it has also ...

The 2024 BET Hip Hop Awards celebrate the artists and music that have commanded the culture while going beyond its borders over the last year. Before the performers and winners graced the stage today ...

“For Mature Audiences Only” – Scribe Shad Reed Discusses Aging Gracefully in Hip-Hop And Where We Are Now. Despite it being more than a decade ago, I still vividly remember speaking with DJ Jazzy Jeff ...

On Monday evening (May 5), suiting and style were the hallmarks of the ’fits from every rapper on the red carpet, which was turned blue, at the Met Gala. Pharrell was the first rapper to show up to ...

If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...

When predicting the Grammy Award winners, there's one thing you have to remember: there's common logic, and then there's Grammys logic. Sometimes those two align, but more often, they don't. And ...