Ol’ Dirty Bastard, born Russell Tyrone Jones on November 15, 1968, in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, New York, was a charismatic and unpredictable American rapper best known as a founding member ...

Before BTS even officially made its debut into the music industry, the members were showing their love and appreciation for J ...

Abstract: In this paper, we study the outage behavior of a decode-and-forward multi-hop free-space optical (FSO) system over a Poisson channel degraded by atmospheric turbulence. We assume that ...

Bill Roth was at his gym in Delaware County a few weeks ago when he got some unexpected visitors. It was Sixers vice president Mike Goings and manager of live events Derrick Hayes. They went out to ...

The Beveridge Place Pub and Washington Beer Blog, two of Seattle’s revered beer institutions, team up for a three-day celebration of fresh hop beers on October 9th through 11th. The celebration ...

Hop, the animated comedy of 2011, directed by Tim Hill, presented a whimsical tale about E.B., the Easter Bunny's son. The movie mixed live-action and animation to create a magical world of mischief, ...

Funk allowed Black musicians and their audiences to shapeshift and speak truth to power—even while speaking in tongues. But as Stanley Nelson and Nicole London’s documentary WE WANT THE FUNK! reveals, ...

Author and music journalist Ben Camp – aka Novocaine132 – a longtime resident of Burien’s Chelsea Park neighborhood, has released his first book, The Birth of Seattle Rap, a deep dive into the origins ...

Hip-hop is a multi-billion-dollar industry and the world’s most popular music genre. Originating in the South Bronx in the 1970s by African American and Latino communities in response to industrial ...

The CPD Blog is intended to stimulate dialog among scholars and practitioners from around the world in the public diplomacy sphere. The opinions represented here are the authors' own and do not ...

A team of students made history this month by performing Europe’s first rocket hop test. Those who have followed SpaceX’s trajectory will know hop tests are a vital stepping stone for a reusable ...

In the ’90s, Hip-Hop music really began to take over the music industry, even though it was still dismissed by some older generations as “noise” and “not real music.” However, not everyone in the ...