hiphop

When police arrested Nevada rapper Kenjuan McDaniel on a murder charge in August 2023, they cited a music video he posted on YouTube that they say includes details of a 2021 killing that had not been made public. McDaniel, who uses…

However you look at the current purgatory for K-pop superstars BTS — a long-expected pause for military service, a renewed focus on solo careers or an existential crisis for the genre — there are significant stakes not just for the group,…

Across India, musicians are using hip-hop to say, “This is us”; “Stop and reconsider”; “Join our cause”. In the US, the original home of this subculture, rap started out subversive, then went mainstream and softened its edges,…

Amid the blight, these kids have gathered to party. The host’s brother, a Jamaican-born New Yorker who goes by DJ Kool Herc, is spinning records behind the decks, pumping reggae, funk and soul out of a massive stack of speakers. He’s been…

One of my most heartwarming memories from elementary school was the day my gym teacher tossed the planned activities, turned on some hip-hop music and just let us dance. I smile thinking of us all jumping around wild, crazy, happy and…

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, the dopest job ever,” one…

Fifty years of hip-hop, a record-breaking run by Beyoncé and a massive snub stopped the 65th Grammy Awards ceremony from turning music’s biggest night into its sleepiest during Sunday’s show at L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena.Despite performances…

Once shunned by the Recording Academy, hip-hop was honored Sunday at the 2023 Grammy Awards with an homage celebrating 50 years of the genre, with performances by influential artists from its past, present and future. LL Cool J, who in…

It was 1985. Hip-hop was entering its golden era, and Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh were putting on what they called "The Show." On that single's B-side was "La Di Da Di," one of the most beloved, and most sampled, songs in hip-hop…

For Olympic silver medalist Jordan Chiles, every gymnastics floor seems to be a dance floor — and that's absolutely the case with her latest floor routine. At UCLA's women's gymnastics home opener this weekend, Chiles performed a '90s…