I’m driving with Truth, a friend who is a music producer. We both make rap music, but he makes beats, too. I’m an undergraduate at the small, private university in my hometown, Decatur, Illinois. He ...

*In the vibrant world of hip-hop, where beats, rhymes, and culture collide, the University of Dope is making waves. This innovative card game, designed to explore your thoughts and knowledge about hip ...

After I finished my Ph.D. in 2017, several newspaper reporters wrote about the job I’d accepted at the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of hip-hop. “A.D. Carson just scored, arguably, ...

Since co-founding the hip hop record label and collective Dope Sandwich in the mid-2000s, Kedrick Mack, aka Dope KNIfe, has been a key figure in Savannah’s hip-hop scene. With old-school beats, ...

Rick Famuyiwa’s Sundance hit “Dope” sent critics over the moon with its fresh new take on what’s been called “the post-hip hop generation.” While that label is up for debate, it’s impossible to deny ...

The legendary LL COOL J recruited Fat Joe and Rick Ross for the new single “Saturday Night Special” produced by Q-Tip. LL COOL J returned with his new single “Saturday Night Special” featuring Fat Joe ...

Flattop haircut; high-waisted acid-washed jeans; thick gold chains worn around the collar of a top-buttoned shirt. If all you saw was the wardrobe alone, you’d think you’d stepped into a time machine ...

"I am the wish in the wishbone/That white people break for good luck/And the next day one of them falls and breaks their neck," rap proto hip-hoppers The Last Poets in 1970's "Black Wish." Pictured ...