The world of music is often confusing. Two terms, hip-hop vs rap, are constantly used. People use them interchangeably. But they are not the same thing. This is the simple truth: hip-hop vs rap is the ...

Six-time Grammy Award-winning drummer and producer Questlove is digging deep into the roots of hip-hop and uncovering how the genre has impacted culture. He explains it all in his new book "Hip-Hop is ...

Questlove, the accomplished musician, filmmaker and author, most recently of “Hip-Hop Is History,” is no doubt aware that his title cuts more than one way. It indicates both that hip-hop is a ...

Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Top Ten Debates In Hip Hop -- Hip hop's critics -- 1: Hip hop causes violence -- 2: Hip hop reflects black dysfunctional ghetto culture -- 3: Hip hop hurts black ...

Eight years ago, in his West Coast marijuana haze, Snoop Dogg ardently sang along to YG and Nipsey Hussle’s anti-Trump protest song, "FDT," which stands for "F**k Donald Trump." “We ain’t voting for ...

In the lower levels of the Cambridge Community Center, a handful of young musicians are singing and rapping, matching their voices to beats composed by fellow artists. A few are behind the wall of a ...

In the last 51 years, hip-hop has grown from what some people believed to be a fad to a global phenomenon. The culture has produced ground-breaking artists and record-breaking sales numbers, leading ...

Hip-Hop legend and Funky 4+1 member MC Sha-Rock is set to join Bowie State University as adjunct professor this fall.

There’s a raw energy in the air—a palpable, jittery anticipation as the old guard of hip-hop production gets tossed aside by the relentless force of technological innovation and cultural upheaval.

Throughout American history, Black innovators such as Benjamin Banneker, Lewis Latimer, Madam C.J. Walker and Dr. Charles Drew helped shape scientific and industrial progress, even as the nation built ...