“These artists weren’t just entertainers—they were educators, cultural critics, and community historians.” — Dr. Reiland Rabaka In Part 2 of our Hip Hop Studies series, Dr. Reiland Rabaka explores the ...

Bass plays a vital role in a trip-hop track. Much like trip-hop beats (which we've covered here), using bassline loops is a perfectly valid approach, and memorable trip-hop tracks such as Portishead’s ...

Part II of The Seven Wonders of the Hip-Hop World highlights seven groundbreaking albums that reshaped rap from the 1990s through the 2010s. In part deux of my Seven Wonders of the Hip-Hop World, I ...

Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur interviews G. Dep exclusively from prison and they talk about Diddy, Black Rob, Mase, Bad Boy and if he’ll ever return to rap. #part2 G. Dep and Black Rob were on the ...

“Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” continues its fifth season on Tuesday, January 9 (1/9/2024) at 8 p.m. ET on MTV. In the newest episode of “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” Following a challenging year, the Atlanta ...

Hip hop, as with everything, has benefited significantly from meaningful contributions by women — yet unfortunately, they are often overlooked. Since the inception of rap music, women have been making ...

Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Top Ten Debates In Hip Hop -- Hip hop's critics -- 1: Hip hop causes violence -- 2: Hip hop reflects black dysfunctional ghetto culture -- 3: Hip hop hurts black ...

Black artists have used horror imagery in their music videos for decades. Horror references are also weaved into genres like ‘Horror-Core’ explicitly through the lyrics and the imagery, but they can ...

The ugly divorce battle of Zoho's Sridhar Vembu and a Rs 15,000 crore bond ...

From homebrew to the Harbor Village in Half Moon Bay, Hop Dogma brings award-winning craft beer and a good time to the coast since 2013. Born from the homebrewing movement, Dan Littlefield and a crew ...