"Rap music is still all over the top 40; it's just not being made by rappers," Stereogum's Tom Breihan observed in a column ...

Primarily through direct sampling, hip-hop music provides a blatant tapestry of historical information that the listener can ...

Although hip-hop as a genre is no stranger to the concept album as a format, there would be little resistance to the assessment that there’s been a bit of a drought of such projects over the past few ...

Dr. Jeffrey Ogbonna Green Ogbar is a history professor and the director of the Center for the Study of Popular Music at the University of Connecticut. He offered a lecture on the genius of hip-hop to ...

It was only in 2018 when hip-hop surpassed rock 'n' roll to become the most popular music genre in the U.S., but its glory was short-lived. In 2023—the year when hip-hop celebrated its 50th birthday— ...

There’s no blueprint for Cardi B. Born Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar in the Bronx, she first grabbed attention with her candid humor on Instagram and her stint on “Love & Hip Hop: New York.” But it was ...

NEW YORK – Hip-hop went all in for its 50th birthday celebration. Hip-hop luminaries lit up the Hip Hop 50 Live concert stage on Friday and fired up the crowd at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, the home ...