Both artists faced heavy backlash, mostly for their lack of respect for the genre itself and the artists within it. Kelly ...

Ari Melber's path to the anchor desk of MSNBC's The Beat is as unique as the show itself. His journey –– weaving together ...

Kendrick Lamar's most famous lyric was heard around the world at last weekend's Super Bowl. An estimated 127 million viewers ...

Jeezy details what called him to the intersection of music and politics in the trailer for Hip-Hop And The White House. The documentary explores subjects including Ye’s infamous “George Bush ...

Salon talked to Derrick Darby, a philosophy professor at Rutgers University specializing in hip-hop and political philosophy, to try and make sense of this shift. Darby broke down the ever ...

Whereas in 2020, galvanizing movements like the George Floyd protests put activism front and center within the culture, in the years since, a kind of political ... that thrust hip-hop into the ...

The performance symbolized Black people's plight in America — and hip-hop’s powerful ability to respond. William E. Ketchum ...

From a Pan-African viewpoint, Hip-hop as a musical culture has positioned itself as a means of authenticating the African ...