Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LONG STORY SHORT: The Original Beatnik Chick I’m driving with Truth, a friend who is a music producer. We both make rap music, but ...

I’m from the small Central Illinois town of Decatur. My hometown is one of the sites where the war on drugs and many of its battles took place. In 2018, Decatur was listed at number seven in USA Today ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hip-hop culture brought graffiti art, breakdancing, emceeing and DJing to prominence. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images After I ...

In the past 40 years since its inception, one of the major focuses of hip hop music has been to use music to bring people of all backgrounds and walks of life together. Thanks to the Internet, ...

When Pusha-T recently hopped on the earworm that is the Succession theme music, layering fresh words atop a familiar instrumental, it inspired us to think back upon hip-hop’s longstanding relationship ...

DOPE Shows, marking seven years of unparalleled success, achieved another milestone with the sold-out 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop Concert at The Met in Philadelphia. This historic event, in ...

The journey of University of Dope began with a casual question about the Wu-Tang Clan. In celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, a groundbreaking card game has hit the scene, transforming lively ...

I’m driving with Truth, a friend who is a music producer. We both make rap music, but he makes beats, too. I’m an undergraduate at the small, private university in my hometown, Decatur, Illinois. He ...

After I finished my Ph.D. in 2017, several newspaper reporters wrote about the job I’d accepted at the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of hip-hop. “A.D. Carson just scored, arguably, ...