In 2023 Ahmir Thompson, known as Questlove, curated the “Hip-Hop at 50” tribute for the Grammy Awards. The harrowing experience, in which Mr. Thompson had to distill a half century of music—and ...

Netflix's Hip-Hop Origins is great music, but bad history. If you're a rap fan, you'll burn through this four-part documentary all the same. Capably narrated by Canadian rapper/documentarian Shad ...

Hip-Hop and The White House (now streaming on Hulu) is the first documentary from &360, an anthology series produced by Andscape, the rebranded identity of ESPN and Disney’s The Undefeated. Written ...

4 Review: WAYNE MCGREGOR: ALCHEMIES, Royal Ballet And Opera The show served as an exploration of hip-hop’s rich history, choreographed by Kenrick Sandy with music compositions by Michael Asante. The ...

2 Photos: First look at The Alcove Dinner Theatre and Bruce Jacklin & Company’s FOUR OLD BROADS 3 Photos: First look at Hilliard Arts Council’s RUMORS When he was growing up, rap music’s founding ...

No one is having a better year than Doechii. The Florida rapper, “The Swamp Rula,” released her critically-acclaimed mixtape “Alligator Bites Never Heal” in August 2024 and hasn’t hit the brakes since ...

Affion Crockett is a comedian who got his start on HBO's Def Comedy Jam (1992), a series created by Russell Simmons, the record executive who co-founded the hip-hop label, Def Jam Recordings in 1984 ...

Joseph Rodriguez, The Dirty South – a story about Master P. with C-Murder and SILKK The Shocker, New Orleans, 1997. © Joseph Rodriguez, courtesy Galerie Bene ...

Hip-hop traces its origins to a block party in New York City in 1973, but it didn’t really break through into the national spotlight until the end of that decade, growing as a music industry force in ...