(Left to right) Common and Pete Rock visit SiriusXM Studios on July 11, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) I realize that I’m an old-head, especially for hip-hop purposes. I ...

Explore how hip-hop aesthetics influence modern online entertainment—from gaming visuals to digital culture and interactive ...

Hip-hop has officially exited the upper echelon of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time in more than three decades. The top 40 of the iconic chart currently contains zero rap songs, marking ...

Hip-Hop has spoiled us. In the 50 years since a group of kids decided to throw a party in the Bronx, the genre has grown and blossomed in ways Kool Herc couldn’t have imagined. Hip-hop left New York ...

Times have changed in Rap. Though the genre is more popular and visible than it’s ever been, the genre is extremely saturated and anyone with a computer or a phone can spit a verse that someone on the ...

It was only in 2018 when hip-hop surpassed rock 'n' roll to become the most popular music genre in the U.S., but its glory was short-lived. In 2023—the year when hip-hop celebrated its 50th birthday— ...

If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...