After 40 years of cutting-edge music and cultural coverage, SPIN celebrated its milestone birthday in style at Back to Basics ...

Cropper’s most enduring contribution, though, isn’t any particular song, but the way he pared the guitar techniques of R&B ...

There’s nothing like the Bayou Classic between Grambling State University and Southern University which attracts over 30,000 ...

Johnson is talking about his years of “dirt hustling,” when he sold stapled and Xeroxed copies of his zine Unsigned and Hella ...

The eight-album “Essential ‘90s Memphis Rap” campaign — which includes releases by Lil’ Ced, MC Money & Gangsta Gold, Shawty Pimp & MC Spade, Skinny Pimp, Carmike, R.A.N., Gangsta Blac and Gimisum ...

Erick Sermon says Clipse helped reopen the lane for classic Hip-Hop duos as he readies his star-packed “Dynamic Duos” project. Sermon revealed that he first developed his idea before the pandemic, ...

The hip hop archivist, Marcyliena H. Morgan, has died at 75. She is credited with creating Harvard University’s Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute, convincing elite academia to see the genre as a ...

Generative artificial intelligence is seeping deeper into our cultural fabric by the day. In just two years, AI videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti have evolved from poorly developed nightmare fuel ...

When Marcyliena H. Morgan first began her scholarship on hip-hop in the 1990s, nobody believed the genre would have real staying power, according to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of the ...

To commemorate the university’s sixtieth anniversary, SUNY Old Westbury partnered with the Hip Hop Alliance to produce an unforgettable concert headlined by the legendary Kurtis Blow. This milestone ...

He worked with artists like Special Ed, Chubb Rock, The Real Roxanne, U.T.F.O, and Color Me Badd. Legendary music producer Howard Thompson, known to hip-hop fans as Hitman Howie Tee, has recently died ...