Focuses on how the Native hip hop group WithOut Rezervation (W.O.R.) incorporates hip hop both as genre and culture, to construct a contemporary sense of identity. Through a critical review of ...

Feb. 18 is the anniversary of several momentous events that have shaped Hip-Hop and R&B history. One influential figure celebrating their birthday on this day is American rapper and ...

The Wu-Tang Clan is mourning the loss of founding member Oliver Power Grant, who died just days after the legendary rap group ...

The glass ceiling in hip-hop remains to be broken. Back in the day, artists such as Queen Latifah and MC Lyte rocked the mike as hip-hop spread from the underground to the mainstream, and Denverite ...

On this day in 1989, LL Cool J released his third studio album, Walking with a Panther, on Def Jam Recordings. The album was another commercial success for the Queens native, peaking at No. 1 on the ...

On this day in 1990, Queensbridge native and original Juice Crew member Percy Chapman, better known to the culture as Intelligent Hoodlum, released his self-titled debut album Intelligent Hoodlum via ...

The Tribe Called Quest emcee died from complications resulting from diabetes. — -- Hip-hop artist Malik Taylor, better known as Phife Dawg, has died from complications resulting from his diabetes ...

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 ...

Hip-hop was born 50 years ago in the Bronx, just north of Yankee Stadium. Friday, September 1, 2023 BRONX, New York -- It was 50 years ago in an apartment building in the Bronx, about a mile and a ...

A Native American musician will blend history with hip-hop at UW-La Crosse. Supaman, a Native American hip-hop artist, hits the stage at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 8, in the Bluffs, Student Union, 521 East ...

In celebration of Black History Month, a photo installation at Brooklyn Borough Hall is putting “Brooklyn’s Finest: Legends in Focus” in the spotlight, paying homage to Brooklyn’s hip-hop history and ...