Eminem’s 2013 song 'The Monster,' featuring a guest spot from Rihanna, has surpassed one billion views on YouTube.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

French Montana walked away from a copyright lawsuit over his 2013 hit with a clean win in federal court and no damages owed.

Marcyliena H. Morgan, founding director of Harvard's Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute, died from complications of ...

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.” ...

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