Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Hip Hop, money isn’t just something to chase. It’s a symbol of survival, a status check and a storytelling tool. From mixtapes ...

The title Word Traveler is more than just a clever play on words—it encapsulates Bullet Brak’s journey as an artist and storyteller. The album serves as a passport into his world, blending ...

Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey is a luxury volume that chronicles the genre’s history from its humble beginnings to its current role as a dominant force in global pop culture. At 420-pages long and ...

It will be words about rap and rapping about words during this year’s South Florida Book Festival, which focuses on hip-hop. Staged at the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center in Fort ...

Most people would never put Shakespeare and Kendrick Lamar in the same sentence. One composed sonnets for the Elizabethan ...

Thirty-one years ago today, in 1994, Brooklyn-born, Uptown-polished wordsmith OC released his debut album Word…Life on Wild Pitch Records, in what would become one of the quiet but defining statements ...

The Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, headed by Russell Simmons and Dr. Benjamin Chavis, issued a statement calling for the recording industry’s removal of the words “b**ch,” “ho” and “n***er” in all of ...

On International Mother Language Day, we look at how rap and hip-hop artists are mixing languages and spreading a vernacular that captures the contemporary Francophone world: multi-ethnic, ...

“Paige In Full,” coming to Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) for its Brooklyn debut on March 14, is a unique brother/sister duo created by Paige Hernandez (writer and performer) and Nick tha 1da ...

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