Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The co-curators and performers of Brooklyn Academy of Music’s annual celebration of hip-hop and poetry talk about this year’s ...

A human rights professor was fired after leading a discussion about the N-word with students, saying the word should be banned from rap music. Get him out of here! That’s what the administration at ...

Adin Ross admitted that he uses the N-word while listening to rap music and claimed that all streamers do it. Adin Ross just dropped a bombshell that’s got the Hip-Hop community talking. The white ...

In a recent appearance on the It’s Just My Opinion podcast, Rhymefest made a surprising claim about a rap battle with Eminem back in 1998, alleging that the Detroit rapper used the N-word—but ...

What came first, the chicken or the egg? I often ask myself similar questions but with words or rap music. Do I love words because of rap music or rap music because of the words? I’m 44 and no closer ...

Thirty-one years ago today, in 1994, Brooklyn-born, Uptown-polished wordsmith OC released his debut album Word…Life on Wild Pitch Records, in what would become one of the quiet but defining statements ...

“This is black culture,” said Nick Gates, who is co-teaching hip-hop at COCA (Center for Creative Arts) in University City this summer. “A lot of black youth don’t know about the four elements of ...

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) annually hosts “Word. Sound. Power., ” a multi-disciplinary amalgamation of hip-hop, spoken word, dancing and theatrics. This year’s series theme, “Word: The New ...