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 ...

Blacks in America gave birth to the thumping beats and verbal bluster that have become hip-hop, but a white rapper, Eminem, is the reigning hip-hop king. He even won an Oscar Sunday night for a song ...

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 appointment might ...

The story of hip-hop’s beginnings has been highly contested, but it begins in the Bronx on Aug. 11, 1973. DJ Kool Herc’s sister, Cindy, is hosting a back-to-school party in their apartment complex, ...

A few days ago, at some ungodly hour, two friends and I had the grand idea to begin discussing the merits of hip-hop/rap music and the culture that surrounds it. As with all good late-night debates, ...

The British-born rapper looks back as he's awarded a lifetime achievement prize at the Mobo Awards.