Hip-hop has always been bigger than sound alone. From fashion and visuals to physical merchandise, artists build brands fans can recognize, wear, and belong to.

Launching the Spring 2026 semester, the Ivy League university will introduce the course highlighting how women emcees ...

Politicians once abhorred rap stars. Now they're embracing them. Feb. 14, 2013 -- In the 1990s Washington was polarized on many of the same issues as today: taxes, the economy, gun control. But there ...

Numerous books have been written about the origins of hip-hop and its evolution from an underground phenomenon to a global force. While its growth since the 1990s had been well-documented, here are ...

A brand new episode of the hit reality series Love & Hip Hop Miami premieres on BET Wednesday, Jan. 28 at 8/7c. During this week’s new episode, Nadia finally lands in Miami just as Michael loses his ...

Fifty years into hip-hop, we've gotten used to decades of headlines proclaiming the genre's culture is homophobic and misogynistic — that generations of queer talents were forced to the peripheries ...

August 11 is National Hip-Hop Celebration Day! The celebration was made official by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer last July, following the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. In a speech on the Senate ...

Sometimes it’s hard to say out loud how we’re really feeling, but the best songs are able to take all those emotions and set them to music. When it comes to romance, though, hip-hop love songs are ...

Hip-hop has transformed music, and the world at large, since it was conceived 50 years ago. In a relatively short time, it's made a massive impact on every aspect of pop culture — and fortunately, ...

Erica Mena, a controversial former music video model who has sparred with co-stars on the hit MTV series Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, was released from the show on Saturday, after calling her Black ...

The class will highlight the impact of women emcees like Lil Kim and Cardi B, while examining the culture’s history through a ...