Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Illustration by Tatyana Alanis / For The Times) I knew little about the music industry before becoming editor in chief of Honey, ...

In 1973, 25 dollars and a mission to go back-to-school shopping pushed adolescent Cindy Campbell to host an event that would inadvertently lead to the genesis of hip-hop. Campbell planned and hosted ...

The class will focus on Hip Hop through a gendered lens, highlighting the impact of women emcees. Princeton University is offering a new class focusing on the women that shaped hip-hop. Launching in ...

Ciara photographed by Jonathan Mannion. Makeup by Sheriff. This image is from a spec shoot that Sheriff and Mannion put together for the then budding artist. Ciara’s then record label, LaFace Records, ...

Passing the Crown unites female emcees, breakers, and DJs with female classical musicians to combat the underrepresentation of women of color in music Zuri Appleby, Lindsay Niccs, and Rachel Francis ...

Because music executives have little faith in the profitability of female solo artists, women, who were once a dominant force in hip-hop, have become almost completely invisible in the industry today, ...

Throughout hip-hop’s history, women have been trendsetters and rule-breakers in the culture without being properly recognized as such. DJ Kool Herc is credited as hip-hop’s founding father for playing ...

With Women’s History Month in full swing, female artists are taking over in almost every genre of music, including hip-hop. While current artists such as Doja Cat, SZA, and Beyonce continue to ...

Claressa Shields Undisputed Heavyweight Champion Claressa Shields’ life and career is completely engulfed in the power of hip ...

It’s 2025, and female rappers are in their Renaissance era — and no, we’re not talking about fangirling over Beyoncé. We’re talking about embracing a cultural rebirth that lets women run rap. We all ...

I knew little about the music industry before becoming editor in chief of Honey, a young magazine for urban women, right after the somewhat anticlimactic shift from the 20th to the 21st century.

Zuri Appleby, Lindsay Niccs, and Rachel Francis perform at the Passing the Crown 2025 event. (All photos by Lawrence Sumulong) If you were to have asked late Sugar Hill Records co-founder Sylvia ...