The genre-defining hip-hop odyssey of Bob Power began by chance. The influential studio engineer and producer, who died on March 1 at the age of 74, forever expanded the two-fisted beats and rhymes ...

CHUCK D: (Rapping) 1989, the number, another summer. FLAVOR FLAV: Get down. CHUCK D: (Rapping) Sound of the funky drummer. MARTIN: The PBS series is titled "Fight The Power: How Hip Hop Changed The ...

“You only play that old stuff!” a kid named DJ I had mentored yelled from the passenger side of my car some years back. At the time he was a high schooler and infatuated with the song “Thugz Mansion,” ...

Critics point out the apparent hypocrisy of a pro-Black rapper like Kendrick Lamar headlining the Super Bowl halftime show, since the NFL isn't... Hip-hop is 'fight the power' but also advertises for ...

How does Hip-Hop's history of championing underserved communities continue, today? Hip-hop has a long history of representing and championing underserved communities as an activist voice and movement ...

In today's attention economy, when some overarching cultural event arises, all the vloggers and talking heads and op-ed writers and journalists eat. It's great for consumers, because there's a nice ...

The scorching July heat couldn’t dampen the electricity coursing through Atlanta’s Synovus Bank Amphitheater as hip-hop royalty Nas delivered a career-defining performance on July 5, 2023. Three ...

Tonight, the new series Hip Hop Treasures, which follows the search for lost Hip Hop memorabilia, premieres on A&E. Led by LL COOL J and Ice T alongside collectors and museum curators, they will tell ...

Joey Badass credits his natural charisma for seamlessly transitioning from hip-hop to acting on Power Book III: Raising Kanan.

In 1973, 25 dollars and a mission to go back-to-school shopping pushed adolescent Cindy Campbell to host an event that would inadvertently lead to the genesis of hip-hop. Campbell planned and hosted ...

Commentator Todd Boyd shares his thoughts on the controversy over Cristal, and the economic strength of hip-hop. Boyd is a professor of critical studies at the University of Southern California School ...