This post was updated March 2 at 1:23 p.m. Hip-hop never needed the runway. The runway needed hip-hop. Hip Hop Congress at UCLA transformed the Ackerman Grand Ballroom into a catwalk Feb. 19, tracing ...

Following a viral cultural call-to-action from comedian and cultural commentator Godfrey urging Black creators to stop ...

The scene after Oregon catcher Burke-Lee Mabeus hit a pinch-hit go-ahead home run in the seventh inning looked more like a Friday night conference... The Ducks brought the rain both figuratively and ...

Hip-hop has a rich history filled with pioneers that, time and time again, take their turn recreating the definition of the genre in their own image, including Public Enemy, Biggie Smalls and Kendrick ...

It happens every day — flip the channel to MTV and there is a rap video playing. Female booties shaking, guys singing (or speaking) unintelligible lyrics as they drive their opulent cars while ...

“Hip-hop is grounded in four distinct principles,” Donovan Livingston, a teaching assistant professor at UNC, said as he invited the audience to repeat after him. “Peace, love, unity, fun.” The ...

The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts will host the 2026 Hip Hop Convene beginning Wednesday, bringing four days of performances, workshops, guest lectures and panel discussions to ...

On Saturday, Feb. 21, the Center of Racial Justice at the University of Massachusetts, held its third annual Black Artistic Freedom Conference in conjunction with the W.E.B. Du Bois Center and UMass ...

There’s nothing quite like a classic rap record, and few MCs delivered them as consistently as Gang Starr. The legendary ’90s duo—Guru on the mic and DJ Premier behind the boards—crafted six albums ...

The Hip Hop Convene came to a close Friday evening under dimmed lights and amplified voices, ending its run with a powerful focus on women in the culture. Carolyn Randolph-Kato moderates a panel on ...

Few local bands can lay claim to the sort of original sound created by The Theorizt. East Tennessee has a healthy hip-hop scene, most of it off-the-radar, and Blount County rappers like Mr. Mack, ...