Samples in Hip-hop can double as maps to wild, breathtaking places. Sometimes, it’s the sample itself that opens your eyes to ...

It’s a lot of deep things just happening at one time.” Fighting for Hip-Hop’s Respect Remains the Mission It was a battle to ...

Michael B. Jordan voicing a tiny woodland creature who switches bodies with a majestic bird in the animated movie “Swapped” ...

Coming May 8 to theaters nationwide, Billie Eilish’s concert film Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), which she ...

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Baron Von Opperbean and the River of Time, the extraordinarily ambitious, fantastically weird and future-thinking all-ages ...

Afrika Bambaataa passed away in early April, reportedly of prostate cancer, at the age of sixty-eight. His legend is a split ...

Outside the Lyrics,” a digital series that launched in 2024, now looks at how music connects people and builds communities.

Hip-hop is back on top in 2026. Late last year, Billboard reported that hip-hop's market share dropped from 30 percent in 2020 to 24 percent in 2025, which sparked debates among fans and critics about ...

Alternative hip-hop has always thrived on bending the rules, blending genres, and rejecting stereotypes. From pioneers like A Tribe Called Quest to today’s disruptors like JPEGMAFIA and Death Grips, ...

Hip-hop’s origins in African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Latino communities have made it a natural driver of cross-genre collaboration and cultural exchange. From its Bronx block party beginnings to ...