Mickey Factz Explains Being At NYU, Drake, Jay-Z and Nas As Kings Of Rap

Rap professor Mickey Factz says bars can be learned but it also still must be earned. He talks to Chuck Jigsaw Creekmur about ...

Dance for everyone: 2nd Chance Dance Company teaches UMT from ballet to hip-hop

Director Dana Longpré offered co-hosts Audrey Stetson and John Redfield a class on barre fitness basics and beyond. She added ...
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'Being Dope: Hip Hop & Theory Through Mixtape Memoir'

My book, Being Dope: Hip Hop & Theory through Mixtape Memoir, published in December 2025 by Oxford University Press, details ...

A Story of Hip-Hop Rehabilitation With the Body as Battleground

Dahlak Brathwaite’s “Try/Step/Trip,” part of the Under the Radar festival, uses the language of step to express the ...
Florida Courier

How Salt-N-Pepa rewrote the rules for women in hip-hop

Before Cheryl James took on the stage moniker of Salt in the iconic hip-hop trio Salt-N-Pepa, she wanted to revolutionize the ...
Yardbarker

The 30 greatest hip-hop songs of the 2020s

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...