Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hip-hop is big business — venturing from the world’s grandest and most expensive stages into lucrative sponsorships in sneakers ...

The Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit takes visitors on an educational journey through several key themes: origin, innovation, sounds of hip-hop, fashion, regionalism, entrepreneurialism, media, ...

Hip hop/rap is a culture that changed the world, a culture created and perfected by Black and brown Americans.

Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit” curated by the GRAMMY Museum® delves deep into the multifaceted world of the genre through its music, dance, graffiti, fashion, business, activism and history, ...

Howard professor Gilbert Newman Perkins, in a piece at the Washington Post, tackles America’s foundering perceptions about hip-hop, arguing that it’s largely pundits who know nothing about the art — ...

Chuck D famously rapped “our freedom of speech is freedom or death” on Public Enemy’s 1989 single “Fight the Power,” one of hip-hop’s most powerful anthems. Thirty-five years later, the Rock & Roll ...

Seeking a writer for "A Hip Hop History of America," a musical celebrating 250 Years of revolution, rhythm, and rhyme. This 85-minute live hip hop experience features six MCs battling for the audience ...

When I was twelve-years-old, the championship for my favorite song and video belonged to one-hit rap wonder Kwame's song "Ownlee Eue." The guy had style, could rap and also had some of the illest ...

A few days ago, at some ungodly hour, two friends and I had the grand idea to begin discussing the merits of hip-hop/rap music and the culture that surrounds it. As with all good late-night debates, ...

Blacks in America gave birth to the thumping beats and verbal bluster that have become hip-hop, but a white rapper, Eminem, is the reigning hip-hop king. He even won an Oscar Sunday night for a song ...