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

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' ...

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 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 ...

Critics point out the apparent hypocrisy of a pro-Black rapper like Kendrick Lamar headlining the Super Bowl half time show, since the NFL isn't exactly an institution that's known for its support of ...