Amer Ahmed, a longtime board member at the Hip Hop Congress, found the concept of American Indian hip-hop strikingly unfamiliar. Last November, Ahmed, director of intercultural affairs at Concordia ...

FARGO — Stuart James, a hip-hop artist from the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota, raps about important issues that affect Native communities. The 30-year-old started off as a shy kid. Though he ...

Hip-hop history is coming home to Wilmington. This spring, hip-hop pioneer and Wilmington native Sharon Jackson, known as MC Sha-Rock — she's considered to be the first female rapper — will be honored ...

Amadeus, a 26-year-old rapper from Indio, is so committed to his artistry, he's asked The Desert Sun to not publish his birth name. It probably wouldn't be hard to figure out, sifting through old ...

Who owns a sound? And is it OK to profit from borrowing it? Rochester native Jesse Hagen raises those and other questions in his first foray into filmmaking, a forthcoming documentary titled "Dust: ...

In a new interview, Questlove reveals why Drake vs. Kendrick was so triggering, how he regained his passion for hip-hop and what to expect from the new Roots album. "Do I truly feel like hip-hop is ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and analysis to ...

Introduction / P. Khalil Saucier -- Part One: African noise : mapping African hip-hop from the East, West, and South: Rappin' Griots : producing the local in Senegalese hip-hop / Catherine Appert ; ...

Fans of Christian rapper/hip-hopper Lecrae, who performed at Waco Hall earlier this month, probably caught the news Tuesday that he won several Dove Awards for his ...

Watts-born hip-hop sensation Fedie Demarco is profoundly impacting the rap scene with a powerful resurgence of authentic lyricism in Gangster Rap. Amidst a genre often saturated with trends, Fedie ...