While hip hop has been on a wavy trajectory in the past few years, plagued by sameness and algo-baiting TikTok trends, ...

“My favourite memories are Saturday mornings as a child and waking up to the sounds of my parents cleaning the house and playing Tongan hymns, that was a very beautiful feeling.” Lātūkefu grew up in ...

International hip-hop royalty, South African music giants and generations of fans created an unforgettable celebration of ...

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the Grammys. At this year’s awards, taking place on Feb. 2, hip-hop and house ...

As a lifelong listener and nearly life-long fan of hip-hop or rap music, it has become increasingly concerning in recent years to see the emergence of a negative trope or stereotype surrounding ...

For decades, Australian hip-hop has been overlooked as a significant musical movement. In partnership with Arts Centre Melbourne, we discover how the Australian Music Vault is celebrating this rich ...

It’s always awkward telling people what I do for a living. I’m a rapper. I also work as a professor of hip-hop. I work at the intersection of artmaking and academic research. I write music as part of ...

In the American summer of 2008, seven years before the Broadway premiere of his musical juggernaut Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda went to Mexico. For some light holiday reading, he took along a 700-page ...