Learn about Albany rapper Ohzhe and his conscious and self-aware approach to hip-hop. Learn about Albany native rapper Ohzhe, known for his conscious and self-aware approach to hip-hop. Jade Warwick ...

'The Message' speaks to how people are living. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's hit 'The Message' spoke to how people were truly living and feeling. Melle Mel gives background to the lyrics he ...

Ahmer Javaid (left) and Arif Farooq alias Qafilah (right) are among the rappers making up the hip-hop community of Kashmir. Credit: Najmus Saqib They may look like any other group of young men ...

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop, Mass Appeal in collaboration with Chase Marriott Bonvoy credit cards have partnered with Fotografiska New York for “Hip-Hop: Conscious, Unconscious” ...

When I heard that Common was coming to Spring Fling, I almost broke down in tears. I have admired him for his work, passion and devotion to hip-hop since I was introduced to his music, and I lament ...

Fifty years ago, in New York City, a Jamaican-American teenager named Cindy Campbell asked her older brother to DJ at the block party she was hosting to raise money for a new back-to-school wardrobe.

Lately, most rappers come in a thuggish flow and portray their hardcore side and James Masai, popularly known as Jay Maumau refutes this as a misplaced priority. He terms himself an advocate for ...

“Rappers suck, when they spit I doubt ‘em/ The crap they sing about make you wanna slap the f**kin sh** out ‘em.’” – MF Doom, El Chupa Nibre, The Mouse and the Mask. No doubt, MF Doom’s indictment of ...

A new exhibition tracing hip-hop’s origins—starting in the Bronx in 1973, as a social movement by and for the local community of African, Latino, and Caribbean Americans to the worldwide phenomenon it ...

Last Tuesday, I got the chance to see legendary Public Enemy emcee Chuck D speak. The theme of his lecture was billed as "Race, Rap and Reality," and amid standard motivational cliches on making it in ...

She is Queen and she s ready to roar. The days of female empowerment within Hip-Hop may have died off with Latifah, but now there s a new Queen entering the game and she s ready to make a change.