The star-studded lineup included DJ Speedsta, Shamiso, Kid X, Zingah, DreamTeam, Maggz and Ma-E, who all brought their A-game ...

Accra is gearing up for a major moment in global music this December as Ghana’s capital hosts the first-ever Talking Drums Festival, a two-day hip-hop celebration expected to attract tens of thousands ...

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 ; ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.

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 ...

Dr. Marcy Morgan died September 28 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. The linguistic anthropologist was 75.