Billboard spoke with esteemed cultural critics to break down the complex dynamic between Black hip-hop (and hip-hop-adjacent) artists and Americana iconography. By Kyle Denis As Democrats rally around ...

How are hip hop and Black Liberation connected? In this special Black August edition of Rattling the Bars, former political prisoner and Black Panther Mansa Musa sits down with artist, producer, and ...

Hip-hop was never just music. From its birth in the Bronx to its ascension as the most dominant cultural force on the planet, hip-hop has served as the voice of the voiceless, the classroom for the ...

Hip-hop has a story to tell — from early works like Grandmaster Flash’s The Message to Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer-winning album DAMN. and beyond. As education scholar Bettina L. Loves notes, in hip-hop ...

The story of hip-hop’s beginnings has been highly contested, but it begins in the Bronx on Aug. 11, 1973. DJ Kool Herc’s sister, Cindy, is hosting a back-to-school party in their apartment complex, ...

Released in 2018, Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” quickly became a cultural phenomenon, sparking intense conversations about race, gun violence, and systemic inequality in the United States. The ...

In this powerful closing chapter of our Hip Hop Studies series, Dr. Reiland Rabaka invites us to step beyond the music and into the deeper meaning of hip hop as a worldwide movement for change. While ...

We're continuing our celebration of Black History Month by highlighting Hip Hop's Unsung Heroes who helped shape the culture without always receiving credit by mainstream audiences. Hip hop didn’t ...

Ice Cube has already chimed in on the hot take. Candace Owens shared a conspiratorial take on hip-hop and "gangster rap" on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday, sparking passionate debate on social media.

In the past five decades of fashion and jewelry in Hip Hop culture, there has always been a sense of opulence coupled with gaudy excess no matter which decade you choose. From the raw sheepskin coats ...

A new musical blending contemporary hip-hop music and Catholic liturgy debuted Feb. 14-16 at the Lyke House, a Catholic Newman Center serving historically Black colleges in Atlanta. The "Hip-Hop Mass" ...