The 2013 BET Hip-Hop Awards aired tonight, and, in addition to the highly anticipated performances and cyphers, there were also a few awards to be handed out.

Against all odds, hip hop—the genre that seemed, for those who came of age in the 1980s or 90s, to have been handed down from the heavens to exasperate or frighten your Baby Boomer parents—has grown ...

The nominees are in for the 56th annual Grammy Awards, and amid the usual standbys and typical arguments about whether or not the award has lost true cultural capital, it seems clear who the early ...

Kalyn Heffernan of Wheelchair Sports Camp felt the need to create a quasi-clandestine hip-hop showcase as a way to stay connected to the art form's true creative sources. With the assistance of ...

Inspired by a true story of survival.

In Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write,” an editor sums it up: “We were such a weird animal. We weren’t apples or oranges. We were like a kumquat.” ...

Oct. 9 is a monumental date in hip-hop and R&B for many reasons. For starters, it marks the birthday of Lecrae, who was born in 1979. He made history ...

Hip-hop "was built on dreams and imagination,” Professor Morgan once said. “It imagined a world of equality and justice — and ...