The Hip Hop Chip Shop, a central hub for Manchester, England's hip-hop community, seen here on March 11, 2025. (James Francis Whitehead/Courthouse News) MANCHESTER, England (CN) — When local rapper ...

Hip-hop at it's core is lyrics on a beat, with both being vital for the final product. Throughout the genre's history, there have been some truly incredible beats that turned producers into stars, and ...

There’s a raw energy in the air—a palpable, jittery anticipation as the old guard of hip-hop production gets tossed aside by the relentless force of technological innovation and cultural upheaval.

Talib Kweli has been writing and performing for almost 20 years now — as a solo act and as half of well-received duos that reached a broad audience — and for much of that time he's been pinned with a ...

Two rappers from Pennsylvania have made a name for themselves on TikTok with old school hip-hop flows and beats that sound like they came straight out of the 1980s. However, Joey Valence and Brae ...

How to encompass half a century of hip-hop? You start by acknowledging you can’t. Too many stars, too many songs, too many places, too many scandals: Hip-hop is an entire universe — a musical genre, ...

Thelonious Martin in his home studio, where he says that lately he’s been making five beats a day, five days a week Credit: ThoughtPoet City of Win is a series curated by Isiah “ThoughtPoet” Veney and ...

There's something almost absurd about it, if you think too hard. A music genre born in the Bronx in the 1970s, born from ...

A nostalgic crowd turned out to see an all-star lineup on Friday at Yankee Stadium, not far from the genre’s birthplace. Outside Yankee Stadium, where “Hip Hop 50 Live,” a 50th-anniversary concert, ...

Despite how they’ve at times been ideologically pitted against one another, country music and hip-hop are often compared as the two forms of pop music that speak most directly to the everyday problems ...