From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the ...

From Hip Hop pioneers to gospel legends, these Black music icons who died in 2025 shaped generations and the culture. See our ...

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 ...

On Saturday, Feb. 22, the Black Healing, Joy & Justice Collective and the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research hosted the Black Artistic Symposium: Hip-Hop Praxis from the Classes to ...

Hip-hop remains especially significant in Black culture in the U.S. It started as a way for marginalized communities to express themselves, and even with its commercial success, it still carries that ...

Welcome to The State of R&B, ESSENCE’s look at the past, present and future of rhythm and blues. In this piece, ESSENCE editor Rivéa Ruff reports on the blending of hip-hop and R&B. Since the ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...

Hip-hop is making a huge comeback in 2024, according to the Billboard charts. After debates around the decline of hip-hop flooded social media in recent years, the numbers are showing a shift in 2024.

Actor Viola Davis speaks with 1Hood Media's Jasiri X onstage at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater. This is WESA Arts, a weekly newsletter by Bill O'Driscoll providing in-depth reporting about the Pittsburgh ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A half-decade has passed since the last Black Violin album, "Give Thanks," dropped. But the unique ...

Black artists have contributed to the most vital Christmas music of our time through soulful classics and energetic R&B ...