Hip Hop

What Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Win Meant For American Music

Dr. Todd Boyd on Hip Hop’s Long Journey to American Cultural Dominance

 
By Dr. Todd Boyd  November 7, 2022
Hip Hop

A Brief Oral History of Rakim and the Golden Age of Hip-Hop

By Jonathan Abrams  November 3, 2022
Hip Hop

Behind the Scenes of Ready to Die: An Excerpt from It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him

By Justin Tinsley  May 20, 2022
Hip Hop

On Rap’s Linguistic Twists and Turns

By Daniel Levin Becker  February 28, 2022
Hip Hop

Why Kendrick Lamar is the Most Political Rapper in Modern-Day Pop Culture

By Miles Marshall Lewis  October 7, 2021
Hip Hop

On the Movie That Sparked the Birth of the Formidable Wu-Tang Clan

By S.H. Fernando Jr.  July 21, 2021
Hip Hop

Sophia Chang on Entering the Wu-Tang Clan’s Inner Circle

By Sophia Chang  September 14, 2020
Hip Hop

On Jay-Z, Rakim, and Black Mythmaking in America

By Tarisai Ngangura  November 26, 2019
Hip Hop

On Debbie D, One of Hip-Hop’s Legendary Pioneers

By Kathy Iandoli  October 25, 2019
Hip Hop

8 Books That Define and Defy the Canon of Hip Hop Literature

By Will Ashon  April 12, 2019

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