How did rap fall out of the Billboard top 40?

Hip-hop radio veterans Mastermind and Jay Smooth, along with music industry academic Michelle Santosuosso, discuss what this ...

New Christian hip-hop station hits Austin's airwaves

Earlier this week, Christian hip-hop radio brand BOOST Radio launched in Austin. BOOST will play on Austin's already ...

Despite Slipping on the Charts, Hip-Hop Dominated This Year's Grammy Nominations

Though some feared for the genre's relevance in 2025, rap is well represented in the noms - especially Album of the Year ...
Los Angeles Times

When Questlove says hip-hop is ‘history,’ he means it in more ways than one

Questlove, the accomplished musician, filmmaker and author, most recently of “Hip-Hop Is History,” is no doubt aware that his title cuts more than one way. It indicates both that hip-hop is a ...
CBS News

LL COOL J explores hip-hop's roots in new docuseries, "Hip Hop Was Born Here"

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," ...
NPR

Rappers took the White House. Now what?

Simmons is one of many hip-hop figures whose image looms over a new Hulu documentary, Hip-Hop and the White House, directed by the journalist, author and filmmaker Jesse Washington. The entrepreneur's ...
USA Today

Hip-hop’s role in today's classrooms

When Jabari “Dr. Naledge” Evans was a kid, hip-hop felt like a privilege. If he got straight A’s, his mother would let him go to the legendary music venue in the city’s South Side, Chicago’s ...
NPR

The BET Hip Hop Awards cut the cord as DEI dies

Death is so common in hip-hop now that we don't even take time to mourn the deceased. The sudden departure of the BET Hip Hop Awards (HHA) from cable television was announced last month and it ...