What sets spoken word artist and new Milwaukee Poet Laureate Shelly Conley apart from others is her vulnerability and honesty ...

Anthony Mackie, who played Papa Doc in '8 Mile,' remembers how Eminem used details from his real life to win the rap battle ...

The diss track reached its peak of cultural prominence at the Super Bowl, when Kendrick Lamar performed Not Like Us, his hit ...

For decades, poetry slams have woven into the vibrant ... hip-hop and often incorporated lyrics from admired artists like Tupac Shakur, Nas, Lauryn Hill, and Outkast. This creative expression ...

Remembering Voletta Wallace, mother of murdered rapper The Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls, and kept his story in the public eye until her own death at 78.

Mackie later starred in 2009’s Notorious as rapper Tupac Shakur. Studying at Julliard ... you're really just speaking in poems. I always said, one of the greatest rappers [who] ever lived ...

Unlike the late mother of rapper Tupac, Afeni Shakur was more about Tupac's music and poetry than his death. Tupac Shakur was gunned down in September 1996 in Las Vegas, six months before Biggie.

Educators are embracing rather than restricting discussions of race in schools. Leaders have said they’ll do so whether the ...

Each piece at the expo was crafted to fit the theme of resilience, a nod to the name of The Concrete Garden Association “which was inspired by the Tupac Shakur poem The Rose That Grew From ...

There are many Marvel fans who have forgotten that, before becoming Captain America, Anthony Mackie once took on a very ...

Drawing inspiration from another artist is one thing, but to share who influenced them can bring awareness to other musicians ...