The most essential hip-hop books, including works about Queen Latifah, Rakim, Pimp C, Prodigy, and the business of rap. From star-studded memoirs to “one of the most engaging examinations rap ...

Hip-hop is at times accepted as synonymous with rap. But the reality is nuanced, says Carson and suggests a metaphor: "Imagine you have a multi-car garage. Then rap would be one of the cars that's ...

Hip-hop is 'fight the power' but also advertises for the power : Code Switch Critics point out the apparent hypocrisy of a pro-Black rapper like Kendrick Lamar headlining the Super Bowl halftime ...

MC Lyte, one of hip-hop’s pioneer emcees, tells CNN she’s “elated” with how far hip-hop has come since its inception back in 1973. “Look where we are. I am just so elated, excited, it ...

Hip-hop artists would go on to express their tears and triumphs in their songs — they often spoke to political and social oppression. "Hip hop was the way we spread the word. It was the way we let ...