Many of us millennial and Gen Z'ers grew up with hip-hop, discovering its amazingness through either MTV, BET, or our Gen X parent's collection of CD's. Throughout my childhood, I would snag my mom ...

You could use two hands to count the number of rappers who currently would rather be spitting bars on the microphone than living behind them. We have ten fingers, so lets count 10 notable rappers who ...

Hip-hop can be profound, witty, and everything in between. In most cases, the wordplay in hip-hop records is thought-provoking and impactful, however, in other instances, some hip-hop song lyrics will ...

Jason Martin, better known in the music world as Kidd Called Quest, has been steadily building a legacy in underground hip-hop, driven by passion, persistence, and the unmistakable sound of ...

Composite drawing of all 15 artists featured on Bending the Bars, a new hip-hop album featuring incarcerated artists. Julius Smith is hogging the phones at the Taylor Correctional Institute in Perry, ...

Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity (JCSCORE), Vol. 6, No. 2 (2020), pp. 61-93 (34 pages) Hip-hop culture serves as a space to correct, prescribe, make known, and show up.

I spoke to her as she prepared for the April 29th Beats n Bars festival; an event that she founded in the summer of 2015 with the goal of community building and amplifying hip-hop artists and ...

A new bar in Over-the-Rhine dedicated to '90s R&B, hip-hop and classic Black films is now open in Over-the-Rhine.Cinema OTR is located at 1517 Vine St.The bar focuses on classic '90s/early 2000s ...

CINCINNATI (Cincinnati Business Courier/WKRC) - Over-the-Rhine's first-ever bar deeply rooted in Black film, hip hop and '90s R&B history is now open, marking the latest business venture from ...