Released in 2018, Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” quickly became a cultural phenomenon, sparking intense conversations about race, gun violence, and systemic inequality in the United States. The ...

Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America examines six songs based on the impact the song had on the time of its creation and beyond; we pick the hip-hop song that had the biggest impact both musically ...

Chuck D famously rapped “our freedom of speech is freedom or death” on Public Enemy’s 1989 single “Fight the Power,” one of hip-hop’s most powerful anthems. Thirty-five years later, the Rock & Roll ...

Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit” curated by the GRAMMY Museum® delves deep into the multifaceted world of the genre through its music, dance, graffiti, fashion, business, activism and history, ...

The story of hip-hop’s beginnings has been highly contested, but it begins in the Bronx on Aug. 11, 1973. DJ Kool Herc’s sister, Cindy, is hosting a back-to-school party in their apartment complex, ...

Blacks in America gave birth to the thumping beats and verbal bluster that have become hip-hop, but a white rapper, Eminem, is the reigning hip-hop king. He even won an Oscar Sunday night for a song ...

Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school’s “first” hip-hop professor. Even if the job title and the historic nature of the appointment might ...

The Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit takes visitors on an educational journey through several key themes: origin, innovation, sounds of hip-hop, fashion, regionalism, entrepreneurialism, media, ...

Nothing about Biz Markie’s unapologetically wacky, is-this-guy-for-real? 1989 hip-hop love song “Just A Friend” screamed POP HIT! The “vocalist,” a Long Island, New York MC, deejay and beat boxing ...

A few days ago, at some ungodly hour, two friends and I had the grand idea to begin discussing the merits of hip-hop/rap music and the culture that surrounds it. As with all good late-night debates, ...