Thirty years ago, hip-hop was background noise at small house parties in Harlem and the South Bronx. Now, it's a multibillion-dollar empire. A new book, The Big Payback: The History of the Business of ...

The best new hip-hop this week includes albums, videos, and songs from Conway The Machine, Earthgang, and more. After a year’s worth of delays, Conway’s long-awaited Shady Records debut has arrived, ...

Hip hop icon Erick Sermon, one-half of the legendary duo EPMD, has released his new project Dynamic Duo’s Vol. 1, a ...

Yung Joc performing at Mayo Civic Center in Rochester (Photo by Nagashia Jackson for rolling out) Bobby Bookings Promotion is the top promotion company in Rochester, Minnesota and well-known for ...

Rap Research Lab continues what hip hop has been doing for the past half century: playfully rearranging the words, sounds, and textures of postwar American pop music. Installation view of Tahir ...

This essay proposes an alternative invention strategy for research-based argumentative writing. By investigating the coincidental usage of the term "whatever" in hip-hop, theory, and composition ...

Machine Gun Kelly plans to return to his Hip Hop roots and make another rap album after shifting to pop-punk music on his last two LPs. Machine Gun Kelly isn’t done with Hip Hop. The Interscope ...