Journalist and cultural strategist Manny Faces bridges creativity, education, and civic change through Hip Hop's collaborative framework--earning Gold in the 4th Annual Signal Awards for Best Music ...

Nas isn’t just preserving Hip-Hop history—he’s actively building it, putting his voice, vision, and money where his legacy is.

Doechii at Lincoln Hall in Chicago for her "Alligator Bites Never Heal" tour 2024 (Photo credit: Eddy "Precise" Lamarre) The performance’s creative direction, choreographed entirely by Doechii herself ...

Doechii's creative risks early in her career have paid off, bringing Kal Banx on her first major tour for a special Dallas ...

I watched history unfold at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on Friday (Sept. 19), and let’s just say trap music never looked more regal. Grand Marnier and multi-platinum rapper, Future, ...

Chuck D famously rapped “our freedom of speech is freedom or death” on Public Enemy’s 1989 single “Fight the Power,” one of hip-hop’s most powerful anthems. Thirty-five years later, the Rock & Roll ...

The post Inside ONE Musicfest And Its Love Letter To Producer Rico Wade And Atlanta Hip-Hop appeared first on Blavity. ONE ...

Glasgow band Kai Reesu have won the coveted Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) award at a prize ceremony in Dundee. Their debut ...

BRONX, New York -- It was 50 years ago in an apartment building in the Bronx, about a mile and a half north of Yankee Stadium that hip hop was born. That is where Clive Campbell, better known as DJ ...

Welcome to The State of R&B, ESSENCE’s look at the past, present and future of rhythm and blues. In this piece, ESSENCE editor Rivéa Ruff reports on the blending of hip-hop and R&B. Since the ...

As the Bryson Tiller-assisted track reigns, the singer's enduring and former No. 1 "Residuals" rebounds to second place.