The LA Phil and Live Nation Urban announced the return of GRAMMY award-winning multi-platinum hip-hop luminaries The Roots to ...

Fifty years after critics dismissed hip-hop as a passing fad, Grammy winner LL COOL J is taking viewers back to the genre's authentic New York roots with his new docuseries "Hip Hop Was Born Here," ...

Hip-hop has made its way into the academy and is increasingly becoming accepted as a legitimate field of inquiry, with many top universities around the country offering classes in hip-hop studies, ...

The Associated Press Always expect the unexpected from the Roots. On their genre-expanding 2002 album "Phrenology," the Philadelphia hip-hop band flirted with punk, downshifted neo-soul into a drum n' ...

The Root spoke to Amy DuBois Barnett about her debut novel which explores the good and bad of hip-hop and journalism in the ...

Hip Hop started out booming in basement parties in the Bronx back in the ‘70s and grew into resistance personified. And then, by 2017, Hip Hop/R&B reportedly became the most listened to genre in the U ...

"The Real Queens of Hip-Hop" is set to air on Hulu and ABC News on Oct. 18. Even before hip-hop was called “hip-hop,” women were on the frontlines of the culture as emcees, rappers and producers. From ...

February’s conclusion brings HotNewHipHop’s eagerly anticipated monthly collection of premier hip-hop releases, highlighting an exceptional period of musical innovation and artistic expression. This ...