Talent was never the question. Neither was the work. Five rappers did everything the industry asked. Deals, covers, stages, ...

Conscious hip hop songs are rap records that point at a social or political problem and, at their sharpest, name who is responsible for it. That second part is where most lists go soft, so this one ...

Hip hop is celebrating a massive milestone this year – 50 years in the game, and it's never looked or sounded so good. Arguably, hip hop in its present state is enjoying an apex of creative ...

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

As the ARIA Awards gear up to celebrate hip hop on its 50th anniversary, here are the artists who have dominated the genre in Australia. The future rapper Sensible Antixx, who has just released his ...

In 2018, the censors who oversee Chinese media issued a directive to the nation's entertainment industry: Don't feature artists with tattoos and those who represent hip-hop or any other subculture.

The state of pop culture has shifted a lot over the decades. The idea of the “rock star” had pretty much faded with the death of Kurt Cobain and the grunge era. Eventually, the battle for cultural ...

Rollie Pemberton, who performs as Cadence Weapon, is a Polaris Prize-winning musician, and the author, most recently, of Ways of Listening. In the early 2000s, when I was cutting my teeth as a rapper ...

Hip-hop has never been shy about much of anything: money, women, violence, beef. But for a long time, faith was the one thing rappers tended to keep in the background, maybe a “Lord forgive me” ad-lib ...

The event will feature an MC battle, drumline and dance performances, live DJs and panel discussions with graffiti pioneer Darryl “Cornbread” McCray and Public Enemy co-founder Chuck D.