Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America examines six songs based on the impact the song had on the time of its creation and beyond; we pick the hip-hop song that had the biggest impact both musically ...

Chuck D famously rapped “our freedom of speech is freedom or death” on Public Enemy’s 1989 single “Fight the Power,” one of hip-hop’s most powerful anthems. Thirty-five years later, the Rock & Roll ...

Released in 2018, Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” quickly became a cultural phenomenon, sparking intense conversations about race, gun violence, and systemic inequality in the United States. The ...

Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit” curated by the GRAMMY Museum® delves deep into the multifaceted world of the genre through its music, dance, graffiti, fashion, business, activism and history, ...

Egyptian Lover's Roland TR-808 drum machine is customized with hieroglyphics and themed patterns Credit: Jay Godwin / LBJ Presidential Library Hip-hop is officially middle-aged, but its mortality is ...

The Tanning Of America series has recounted Hip-Hop’s transition from the block to the boardroom. The final installment brought the documentary to a masterful close with a focus on the culture’s now ...

The application deadline for the 2026–27 academic year is Jan. 30, 2026. The post Harvard Is Now Accepting Applications For The 2026-27 Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship appeared first on AfroTech. The ...

Howard professor Gilbert Newman Perkins, in a piece at the Washington Post, tackles America’s foundering perceptions about hip-hop, arguing that it’s largely pundits who know nothing about the art — ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school’s “first” hip-hop professor. Even if the job title and the historic nature of the ...

Hip-hop is big business — venturing from the world’s grandest and most expensive stages into lucrative sponsorships in sneakers and apparel, nightlife and liquor, real estate and sports. The industry ...