A nostalgic crowd turned out to see an all-star lineup on Friday at Yankee Stadium, not far from the genre’s birthplace. Outside Yankee Stadium, where “Hip Hop 50 Live,” a 50th-anniversary concert, ...

It’s always awkward telling people what I do for a living. I’m a rapper. I also work as a professor of hip-hop. I work at the intersection of artmaking and academic research. I write music as part of ...

There are several ways to soundtrack a journey back from hell. On a Wednesday afternoon in late November, Jorge Pabón lifts himself out of his wheelchair, props himself up, and scrolls through his ...

To commemorate the university’s sixtieth anniversary, SUNY Old Westbury partnered with the Hip Hop Alliance to produce an unforgettable concert headlined by the legendary Kurtis Blow. This milestone ...

When the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” debuted in 1979, I remember it as a moment of connection. My parents purchased the 12-inch extended single for my sister and me. And, like many kids, we ...

The Hip Hop Chip Shop, a central hub for Manchester, England's hip-hop community, seen here on March 11, 2025. (James Francis Whitehead/Courthouse News) MANCHESTER, England (CN) — When local rapper ...

In advance of a show in Kamloops, Kiva MH talks about his musical upbringing, a workshop he leads for Indigenous youth, and ...

With hip-hop's 50th anniversary soon approaching and the ongoing social media debate on whether or not Latines — including Black Latines — played an important part in the genre's creation, Amazon ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - U.S. rap stars Sean "Diddy" Combs and Snoop Dogg, once bitter rivals in a notorious feud between east and west coast hip-hop in the 1990s, said on Friday they had buried the ...

That was until Gasper's School of Dance and Performing Arts in Fargo sparked an interest in dance. Northeast of the border, Chantalle McCarville was the exact opposite, dancing since she was walking, ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs, the influential 55-year-old hip-hop mogul, is set to learn his fate today as he faces sentencing in a federal criminal case that could see him imprisoned for more than a decade.