Rolling Loud was founded in 2015 by Zingler and Cherif, both Miami natives, as a one-day hip-hop music festival that evolved ...
In 2011, then UNC student and current hip-hop artist Joshua “Rowdy” Rowsey cooked up something fresh in the dining hall. Around the table, the hip-hop group No9to5 Music was founded. The group ...
Hip-Hop turns 50 this year, and fans are spending all of 2023 celebrating the impact this genre has had on culture around the world. Women have been an integral part of the game since the very ...
Slowed and reverb and lo-fi hip-hop share some distinct similarities, with both subgenres birthing their own subcultures online, and becoming the soundtrack to Generation Z. On TikTok, the hashtag for ...
Back in 2021, Questlove wrote Music Is History, an encyclopedia of sorts of significant moments in music for every year since his birth. Now, with 50th anniversary celebrations for hip-hop going on, ...
The iconic rapper sat down with theGrio’s Marc Lamont Hill to talk about the impact his music has on the industry and the message he’s got for his community. For decades, rap music lovers have danced ...
Most independent rappers don’t fail because the music is bad. They fail because they don’t understand the first 24 hours.
Hip-hop isn't exactly rock 'n' roll, but the genre has become a dominant force in the museum that honors the music made famous by Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley. Why it matters: Outkast and Salt-N-Pepa ...
The most, and least, surprising fact of hip hop’s golden jubilee is its longevity. It wasn't supposed to last this long, but survival was its only option. From a Bronx dance floor in August 1973, hip ...