A look at hip-hop's use of technology as part of a longer tradition within black music of using one's body to recreate the ...

Donald Trump layered his border speech over a Dr. Dre beat and the internet couldn’t decide if it was satire or strategy.

Like many of them, he draws from multiple cultures and traditions—Spanish and Quechua speaking, global and local, ancient and modern. And with his fellow artists, he’s creating something entirely new: ...

Their deaths are a part of what fuels his work as the director of Georgetown University’s Center for Men’s Health Equity, ...

The Public Enemy founder will headlines NJPAC's "Social Justice Through Spoken Word" event, uniting hip-hop pioneers with ...

With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to highlight some of the best and most interesting new sounds across R&B and hip-hop — from a new A Boogie banger to a sultry collaboration between Lojay and Tyla. Be ...

On this date in 1992, a young Queensbridge lyricist named Nasir Jones, known then as Nasty Nas, released his debut single “Halftime”, marking the beginning of one of the most celebrated careers in Hip ...

In the days of Kapuka music, Abbas Kubaff (Andrew Kabiru) was a star. He was one of the founding members of K-South, a rap ...

As the Medford-born rapper readies her first major label LP, she’s not only advancing to a higher tier of cultural ...

“There is no hip-hop album in the history of Nigerian music that has as many hit records as Eziokwu. I put my money on the line. Now, we are carry and go, the machine is coming. “Album wey be say we ...

Death is so common in hip-hop now that we don't even take time to mourn the deceased. The sudden departure of the BET Hip Hop Awards (HHA) from cable television was announced last month and it ...

If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...