As a lifelong listener and nearly life-long fan of hip-hop or rap music, it has become increasingly concerning in recent years to see the emergence of a negative trope or stereotype surrounding ...

Hip-hop is well-represented in the 2024 Uproxx Critics Poll, in a year defined as much by conflict as anything else. This is the 7th annual version of the poll, in which nearly 300 music critics from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The latest trend in hip-hop has the genre going highbrow. More than a half-century since it started, the most popular genre in the ...

Hip-hop's origins are often summed up with the phrase “making something out of nothing,” though it may be more accurate to say hip-hop was makeshift out of necessity. In the socioeconomic context of ...

Hip-hop has evolved into one of the most powerful cultural engines in the world. What started as music now drives fashion, sneakers, video games, food, and even sweepstakes platforms. Hip-hop is no ...

The term “instant classic” has been disputed by some great minds throughout music history, but one could argue that they’re ...

I’m torn. On one hand, with a rapper like Finesse2Tymes, you really do want them to grow up and grow beyond what they’ve known — if only for their own self-preservation, since hood habits have often ...

On Jan. 24, Clay Hodges returns to Savannah to launch his latest curated 17-track release with a celebratory black-tie event ...

On Saturday, Feb. 22, the Black Healing, Joy & Justice Collective and the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research hosted the Black Artistic Symposium: Hip-Hop Praxis from the Classes to ...

"We’re helping hip-hop and classical music grow and expand beyond their boundaries," Cypress Hill's "Sen Dog" says. By Roy Trakin The latest trend in hip-hop has the genre going highbrow. More than a ...