A new study reveals Nigerian hip hop is intellectually dense, not anti-intellectual. A scholar analyzes Asake's 'Joha' to show its lyrical and cultural dep ...

Many of the hip-hop’s most lauded works this year feature religious themes—themes that arguably helped spark a renewal of hip ...

Low" leaned intently over a glowing digital controller, headphones on and head bobbing, as she mixed two tracks by New Order ...

Launching in the Spring 2026 semester, the Ivy League course will highlight how women emcees revolutionized the rap game.

Held at Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts and open to students across disciplines with no prerequisites, Miss-Education ...

Hip-hop has quietly lived at Rice for 20 years through professor Anthony Pinn’s religion courses. Now, with a new faculty ...

Rapper Nas is behind a first-of-its-kind academic fellowship at Harvard University.

It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

Another classic by the Steve Miller Band is receiving new life in a hip-hop song. The “Take the Money and Run” singer’s 1977 No. 2 hit “Fly Like an Eagle” has turned up in “It’s Time,” a new track by ...

Marcyliena Morgan at the Hiphop Archive & Research Institute in 2019. Credit: Harvard file photos/The Harvard Gazette Dr. Marcyliena Morgan, the founding director of Harvard’s Hiphop Archive & ...

In the words of the legendary Notorious B.I.G., “you never thought that hip hop would take it this far.” And Wednesday night at Cipriani Wall Street proved exactly that: Hip hop isn’t only going far, ...

It may have been a first for the Connecticut City Hall. “This project isn’t just about music, it’s about bridging culture, entrepreneurship, and community through art in a government space that has ...