The hip-hop world was rocked this week by the news that Oliver “Power” Grant, a founding member of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan ...

On Friday, March 6, visitors to Kalamazoo Central High School can attend the second annual Symphonic Beats concert featuring ...

Rapper Chuck D, of Public Enemy fame, is one of several who agree that basketball greats and hip-hop excellence share a similar foundation.

In the ’70s, hip-hop was budding at block and house parties in the Bronx, where DJs spinning turntables moved crowds like puppet masters. Until the late ’70s, most of those DJs were men; that is, ...

Artists like Lecrae and NF accumulate billions of streams as Gen-Z and millennials seek more uplifting content ...

As the 50th year of hip-hop comes to a close, the AFRO salutes the pioneers of hip-hop and those who have sustained the genre for 50 years and those who carry it into the future. Started on Aug. 11, ...

The Wu-Tang Clan is mourning the loss of founding member Oliver Power Grant, who died just days after the legendary rap group ...

“The smooth criminal on beat breaks / Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes,” rapped Nas on his 1994 classic “N.Y. State of Mind.” Like other underground genres that hit their stride in the ...

*Ernest Dickerson’s “Juice” may center around four Harlem teens focused on attaining respect, but an additional presence shadows the Wrecking Crew through the good, the bad and the tragic. Hip-hop ...

After making his major label debut, the New York City rapper is Billboard's Hip-Hop Rookie for February.

A panel of The Athletic writers ranked 24 of the greatest NBA drops in lyrics that spanned almost five decades worth of hip-hop music.

Standing courtside at State Farm Arena Thursday night, Grammy-winning rapper and longtime Atlanta advocate Killer Mike beamed ...