It’s impossible to overlook hip-hop’s profound impact on the global music landscape as it celebrates its 50th year. Beyond its birthplace in the Bronx, New York, this genre has transcended borders, ...

Introduction / P. Khalil Saucier -- Part One: African noise : mapping African hip-hop from the East, West, and South: Rappin' Griots : producing the local in Senegalese hip-hop / Catherine Appert ; ...

Chuck D said for Hip-Hop to live on for another 50 years, “we got to recognize the world too,” and said the future lies in Africa. Chuck D is reflecting on the history of Hip-Hop and its worldwide ...

Ghana’s vibrant capital, Accra, once again sets the stage for a historic global music moment this December 2025, as the ...

(CNN) — Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at ...

One of the early academics to recognize the art form as a topic worthy of study, she documented the cultural phenomenon as it ...

Could the Love & Hip Hop franchise be expanding to a new continent? While the jury may still be out on if that would ever or happen or not, one thing is for certain: it seems like the franchise’s ...

Rapper Ma-E is still going strong more than 15 years after bursting onto the SA hip hop scene with Teargas, and he’s not ...

Legendary South African hip-hop artist MC ProKid has died. Family members of the MC confirmed that the 37-year-old had died from a massive seizure on Thursday. From ‘Welcome To Derry’ to ‘The Smashing ...

Ravyn Lenae, GELO and Odeal accepted the R&B, Hip-Hop and African Rookies of the Year award at Billboard‘s 2025 R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players event Thursday night (Sept. 4) at Unveiled in New York. Staff ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Hip-hop music is celebrating 50 years, and since its inception the impact it’s had on ...