She charmed them with heartwarming tales of making popadam in her grandmother’s kitchen while simultaneously introducing the old woman to the joys of hip-hop. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

All around the reception area, there are framed pictures of the various DJs with hip-hop royalty they’ve interviewed over the years. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It’s so few of us in hip-hop as it is. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She turned the radio on but changed the station from gospel to hip-hop, which on any other day would’ve been totally cool. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t think there’s a hip-hop head in the world who hasn’t heard of Hype’s Hot Hour on Hot 105. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then the three boys—but not Train Ear—clapped their hands and did their hip-hop sliding step. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I read a monologue from Julius Caesar and performed a short hip-hop play about the redemption of a former child soldier that I had written with Esther’s encouragement. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He’d be up in the morning, blasting house music or hip-hop, practicing moves the whole day. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But he kept the one and three hip-hop beat on the tune. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It was still dark, Dad had his window cracked, letting some air in, and he had changed the music from slow jams to nineties hip-hop. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I cruised out of the room and through the hall, past a couple girls waiting for the bathroom, and ducked my head into the living room, where they were still banging hip-hop. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He wore his pants low in hip-hop style with about four inches of his shorts showing. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nobody,” I conceded, “except the entire hip-hop community.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Together, like the perfect lyric over a hip-hop beat. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Like I was actually making up hip-hop lyrics or something. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Many rap and hip-hop songs had lyrics referring to the “over-seers,” meaning any kind of cops. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carla says, “I know, right? First of all, I don’t even listen to hip-hop.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The hip-hop music cuts off abruptly, followed by quiet applause, and I say too loudly, “If Mom has already disowned you, what’s the worst thing that could happen here?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A hip-hop dance class begins in a studio directly behind us. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When she landed on the rhythm and bass of hip-hop, Genie livened up and started nodding his head. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

One enterprising rock critic has tried to solve the problem simply by calling his music a cross between the British new wave music of the 1980s and hip-hop. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Tyrone might convince everybody else that he’s all through with dreaming, but I know he wants to be a big hip-hop star. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, after several days of leaving messages, someone answered at Day’s house: a young boy who didn’t say hello, just breathed into the receiver, hip-hop thumping in the background. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We ride in silence apart from the nineties hip-hop mix he’s got playing, and I’m panicking a little—I hate surprises—but the smell of his cologne is definitely helping. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The sound system alternately blared hip-hop and grungy emo rock as various DJs took turns pushing one another out of the way. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I read her this poem I wrote called “Dream” about doing hip-hop with my own band, and she started crying. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then a big Lincoln Continental pulled into the car wash with its stereo turned to maximum hip-hop. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“So would it be okay if your little sister has a peek at our hip-hop class? It’s just down the hall. I'll have her back here in a few minutes.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

So I sang, starting with the couple of Congolese lullabies I could remember and soon transitioning to hip-hop. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And if Edith Wharton were still writing, how could she not include a heavily blinged hip-hop mogul? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The ladies of hip-hop watch from the wall beside my bed. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

My skin crawls, and suddenly what was just a smooth hip-hop song now sounds like heavy conga drums—a downbeat rhythm, like for the Petwo Iwas, the fiery spirits signaling danger ahead. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Luma was unsure who exactly came up with the name, which many opposing teams assumed was a reference to the hip-hop band of the same name. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Everybody else cleared the floor, watching my folks dance fast, slow, even hip-hop. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

On Monday I was walking home from after-school and passed by this car booming hip-hop near a building at St. Nick. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The hallway walls are covered in posters of hip-hop legends. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

During holidays, he brought me cassettes and taught my friends and me how to dance to what we came to know as hip-hop. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The walls of apartheid were coming down just as American hip-hop was blowing up, and hip-hop made it cool to be from the hood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Now, next to some extreme forms of hip-hop, Chuck Berry seems as dangerous as Beethoven. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet before he knew it, Clayton’s foot tapped to the hip-hop beat, a simple rhythm with the clap on the first and third beat. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The remnants of her sash read Miss Illin, and for a moment, Jennifer thought of her as being from a very cool hip-hop state. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He saw it with the guys on the team, hip-hop or metal blaring, and it felt like a liability. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

You know who the biggest consumers of hip-hop are?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

First thing we do is pop in some hip-hop, I told ’em, switching my bag to the other shoulder. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

This might mean working with broad categories of Chinese, Indian or West African music, or narrow sub-cultures such as hip-hop music, Motown sound from the 1960s, or even the sound of an individual singer. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And because this was hip-hop, the crew would do that thing where you shoot your arm out in front of you with your palm flat, bopping it up and down to the beat. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was an iteration, a simultaneous arm and evolution of hip-hop, and, coolest of all—it was originally used as an alternative to physical violence. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But she adds, “Since hip-hop is poetry, your grades should never drop again.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It is important to keep in mind, though, that many rappers and hip-hop artists do not aim to glorify or romanticize gangsta life or culture. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

His hip-hop riff on Alexander Hamilton had exploded into a Broadway sensation, and with it he’d become a global superstar. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A lot of classic soul and newer hip-hop. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

On an early MP3 player, he listened to rap and hip-hop. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

If a white guy chooses to immerse himself in hip-hop culture and only hang out with black people, black people will say, “Cool, white guy. Do what you need to do.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Now, I know hip-hop is what you kids are all about these days,” she says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Kwaito, a South African mix of hip-hop and house music, blared from cars that passed us. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But just as the Blues, ragtime and jazz emerged among the poor, disconnected communities of the American South, there is a modern-day equivalent that was likewise born in areas of deprivation: hip-hop. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Local South African music was big, but black American music was what people were desperate for, hip-hop and R&B. Jagged Edge was huge. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The scattered noises of gossip and hip-hop rhymes battle it out against the melody Mrs. Waltons playing on the piano. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There’s a bar in the back, and some kind of hip-hop music playing, and waiters turning sideways to squeeze through the crowd with pints of beer and baskets of chicken wings. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Dwyer and Guzzo drank much more than I did, and they stood around the keg shouting out the lyrics of all the hip-hop songs blasting from the living room inside. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My obsession with hip-hop kept me credible with the kids in my neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Molly is saying that during her hip-hop dance class, she wraps her legs and stomach in plastic wrap. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

All she knew was that I could effortlessly recite hip-hop lyrics while struggling with my English class. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

While rap is often associated with “gangsta life” in the mainstream press, the origins of rap and hip-hop culture are not rooted in outlaw ideology. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He used to be a rap producer, but now he only listens to wack elevator music, because, he says, hip-hop is dead. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I remember the many nights of being lulled to sleep by the hypnotizing rhythms of hip-hop and salsa hovering over Grafton Hill. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

By the late 1980s, hip-hop had graduated from being the underground art of the Bronx to a rising global culture. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Eleven country hits; five rock songs; three hip-hop tunes. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Honestly, I don’t think that this is new ground for hip-hop in terms of what Macklemore is capable of, I think this is exactly what hip-hop is capable of,” she said. Macklemore says fellow rapper was robbed at Grammys — by him 2014-01-27T22:30:29Z

The streets are alive with the sound of music in this vibrant event, where you can stroll around the city and hear punk bands, hip-hop, opera, string quartets and mariachi echoing throughout the boroughs. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z

As he described the distinct codes and rules of engagement of his people, I saw analogous images from the hip-hop generation. For white folks who teach in the hood: A lesson in campus colonialism 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

“Queens” features musicians Eve and Brandy in a series about four women from a 1990s-era hip-hop group who reunite in their 40s to try to recapture some of their glory years, ABC’s new ‘Women of the Movement’ about Emmett Till’s mother 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

The duo eventually launched Microphone Check as a Webstream focusing on hip-hop from all regions and eras. Hip-hop joins the public radio fold as NPR Music continues its expansion

In a few months, his own project would be released: “Mid90s,” the first film he directed, which explores friendship, skateboarding and hip-hop culture. Events Are the New Magazines 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

I don't mean to be rude, I say, but you're not very bling for such a huge hip-hop star – I mean, the necklace is hardly something to write home about. Jay-Z: good from the hood 2010-11-20T00:03:00Z

At early showcases, the performers would change outside the dressing rooms to maintain their cover, to the point where even others in the hip-hop scene didn’t know who the Jabbawockeez were. A Hip-Hop Dance Crew’s Frabjous Reign in Las Vegas 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

The whole hip-hop scene started in New York, starting in the Bronx of course, connecting in Brooklyn. Nostalgic for the ’90s? Salt-N-Pepa will take you back. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

The night before, Ms. Asherie, a hip-hop B-girl versed in seemingly every style of street dance, and Mr. Arce-Espasas, a D.J., navigated a more logistical kind of ambiguity: Was this a performance or a party? River to River Festival Embraces Ambiguity 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

It enriched the evening just because it was the most overt airing of the sociopolitical issues that surround hip-hop, and Jonzi D moved seamlessly among speech, acting, singing and dance. Dance Review: ‘Breakin’ Convention’ Shows a New York Style’s Diversity 2013-06-17T21:38:11Z

"Empire," a soap opera set in the hip-hop world that turned into a major hit for Fox, had to settle for just three nominations, including Henson's scene-stealing turn as archvillain Cookie. Emmys 2015: 'Empire,' 'Transparent' nods signal new age of TV diversity 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

On paper, this Brooklynite’s music seems dizzyingly multifaceted: She fuses elements of hip-hop, R&B, jazz, funk, soul and indie rock, while also nodding to Latin rhythms, inspired by her Cuban and Puerto Rican heritage. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

As rinks close, their loss is slowly extinguishing a skating culture that fed into hip-hop. Holiday Movies 2018: All Creatures Great and Small 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Now he's credited with overhauling hip-hop into a lush pop product influenced by European dance acts, and giving it a whole new vocabulary in conflict diamonds and male-female relations. Jay-Z and Kanye West – review 2012-05-26T23:05:46Z

“There was this very masculine culture of hip-hop where you had to be resilient and you couldn’t show any signs of weakness,” said Sule and Inkster. Kanye West's travails help hip-hop open up on mental health 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

College professor and music critic Josh Kun used the art of the crossfade, in which a hip-hop DJ merges two strands of music, as a metaphor for social integration. Future of Music Summit 2013: Dreams, modest and otherwise 2013-10-30T02:12:00Z

Sharing the bill was THEESatisfaction, a hip-hop duo as serenely unsmiling as Handsome Furs were gleeful. Music Review: Dark but Danceable Visions of a Chilly Technological Future 2011-08-21T22:18:08Z

Let's hope the rest of the hip-hop community catches on to the artistic potential of kiddy TV soon, otherwise we'll only have DJ Lance to keep us rocking. Songs featuring Beyonc? and Bubl? 2010-05-18T14:18:00Z

The hits, from “Moment 4 Life” to “Starships,” dominated the first part of the show, which was divided into three distinct portions, focusing on hip-hop, dance pop and ballads. Concert review: Nicki Minaj at Chicago Theatre 2012-07-17T05:51:00Z

While the album might not necessarily make the world a better place, it does refresh your belief in hip-hop. Kendrick Lamar: rise of a good kid rapper 2012-12-08T00:01:00Z

The story hip-hop has often told about itself is that it’s a game of lyrical one-upmanship, an ecosystem of artistes looking for words others couldn’t possibly use better. Critic’s Notebook: Young Thug’s ‘Black Portland’ Extends His Reputation 2014-02-05T21:42:57Z

She delivers dream-pop rap that resonates with a restless sliver of hip-hop fans craving something smarter to savor. Review: A look at overlooked albums of 2012 2013-01-03T17:46:53Z

The conversation intensified after VH1 debuted its well received film based on groundbreaking R&B/hip-hop trio TLC late last year. Aaliyah biopic coming to Lifetime 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

The best stretch happened during the finale, the dubstep/hip-hop/soul hit "Wildfire," when he set aside his drum sticks to hunch over a machine, twisting knobs. Concert review: SBTRKT at Neptune Theatre 10/26 2011-10-27T19:33:38Z

His true innovation is in untethering the idea of hip-hop soul from the sound of hip-hop while keeping its attitude, its lingo and its toughness. Music Review: The-Dream Performs at S.O.B.?s 2012-03-13T22:01:22Z

Broadway opening night of his hip-hop musical “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda paid emotional tribute to the biography, and the life, that inspired his work. Creator and Fans Hit it Lucky With 'Hamilton' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The headliner is Lil Wayne, whose failures are more intriguing than Jay-Z’s and who’s been the more challenging hip-hop star over the last decade. Pop: Hip-Hop Titans, Still Going Strong 2013-07-12T17:57:57Z

His method of attack is rooted in contemporary music culture, and sees him improvising extraordinary stream-of-consciousness rants over a series of hip-hop loops. This week's new comedy 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

No one person deserves credit for pioneering the hybrid of hip-hop, gospel, 1970s fusion and quiet-storm R&B that now dominates so much of jazz’s mainstream — and so many of its jam sessions. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Stakset — the Swedish hip-hop trailblazer and a mentor to Einar who made several tracks with the younger rapper, and now helps gang members leave crime — pointed back to the government. After a Star’s Killing, Sweden Struggles With ‘Gangster Rap’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Also, a D.J. got the room dancing to R&B and hip-hop. Their First Date ‘Felt Like Christmas’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Whether it is R. & B.’s current vitality rubbing off on hip-hop or the other way around, the two genres have seldom appeared so meshed with each other. Hip-Hop’s New Wave of Lyricism 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Empire,” while telling a story that involves hip-hop, drug gangs and a wealthy and powerful black family, has largely avoided any explicit engagement with politics or current affairs. ‘Empire’ Returns for Its Second Season, Still Juicy With Melodrama 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

His creativity is far beyond what any other hip-hop artist is capable of. Poll: Who's best? Jay-Z or Kanye West 2012-05-18T11:35:20Z

The AF1, currently in its 40th anniversary, is a hip-hop staple, mentioned in countless songs and worn by countless artists; it is the subject of endless memes; it has been endlessly copied and iterated on. Louis Vuitton Meets Nike in Virgil Abloh’s Dream Sneaker 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

“Empire” centers on Lucious Lyon, a hip-hop magnate who has just been found to have Lou Gehrig’s disease, and his leopard-print-clad former wife, Cookie, who has recently been sprung from prison. Lee Daniels Watches ‘Empire’ – and Talks Back to the Screen 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

His voice is less gimmicked, the keyboard chords are gospel and the vocals have the hip-hop flow of “Trapped in the Closet,” as Mr. Kelly attacks naysayers and shows he can sing again. New Music: New Albums by R. Kelly and Parmalee 2013-12-09T22:29:43Z

They taught the class themselves, working out routines to hip-hop and R&B tracks for about 20 other inmates. Can a Dance Class Free Men’s Bodies in a Place Meant to Contain Them? 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

The performance, which will be a hip-hop dialogue, will be streamed live on the festival’s Web page, luminatofestival.com/events/2013/laurie-anderson. Laurie Anderson’s Wall-to-Wall Summer 2013-06-14T22:30:44Z

Weber’s own mission was to allow hip-hop dancers to showcase their abilities to create characters and tell stories. A Genre-Spanning Choreographer Who Says Yes to the Unknown 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Though Hill’s script predates the hip-hop notion of “representing”, the Warriors regard their Brooklyn heritage as a talisman of legitimacy, status and power. The Warriors at 40: the enduring appeal of a New York classic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

But all Madonna’s early music was what we call electro or Latin hip-hop, that style of dance music. Nile Rodgers on Chic’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Woes: ‘It’s Just Perplexing’ 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

A year or so later I heard that refrain again, this time in the different guise of If I May, a hip-hop track by Blackalicious. Old music: Ross – Swallow Your Dreams 2013-01-31T07:00:00Z

The encounter set Shabazz, who is now 61, on a path to become the foremost photographic chronicler of New York hip-hop culture in the 1980s. Jamel Shabazz: Proud Street Culture on Display 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

Advance publicity made a big deal of the fact that “The Brooklyn Nutcracker” incorporates both hip-hop and ballet. Review: ‘Brooklyn Nutcracker’ Is Simply, Imperfectly Charming 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

So it's not surprise that their new video for "My Song 5" features a huge roster of indie, hip-hop and pop guest appearances. Haim releases cameo-packed video for 'My Song 5' 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Consider his latest adventure: Earlier this year, the Roots' drummer and hip-hop gadfly traveled to Havana for a documentary project. Questlove goes crate-digging in Cuba in new documentary 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Baz Luhrmann’s hip-hop origin story, set in the Bronx in the 1970s, has a messy pilot but pulls itself together in subsequent episodes. What You Should Watch to Catch Up on This Summer’s Shows 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Fox’s soapy hip-hop musical “Empire” is the year’s biggest TV phenomenon, and now it’s a bona fide No. 1 hit too. 'Empire' soundtrack lands rare No. 1 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton Anthony van Laast, director of Blaze, is not exaggerating when he declares that hip-hop is the dance form of the 21st century. Blaze | Theatre review 2010-03-17T21:30:00Z

He brought his portfolio to The Source, a leading hip-hop magazine, and the editors agreed. Jamel Shabazz: Proud Street Culture on Display 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

After a long break, traditional gang culture is reassimilating into hip-hop, owing in no small part to the increasing strength of Los Angeles rap. Music Review | Nipsey Hussle: Nipsey Hussle Puts Gang Life Into Set at S.O.B.?s 2010-03-25T23:16:00Z

This is common enough with music: as our parents had Gershwin and Cole Porter, we had the Stones and the Beatles, and our children have garage, or hip-hop, or whatever it's called. Not-so essential reading 2010-10-22T08:43:00Z

Related: Brandy’s journey from aristocratic tipple to hip-hop star | Empire of drinks 3. How to make cocktails: follow these 10 golden rules 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

But the racial questions arose again a few weeks ago when Bryan Crawford, a prominent hip-hop blogger, posted screen grabs from a Rap Genius chat room that showed users making jokes about slavery. Yale Graduates Seek a Degree in Hip-Hop 2012-11-09T23:36:49Z

"Secret Society" flits wildly between styles — house music, hip-hop, drum and bass, lo-fi guitar pop — but it's all soul music, maaannnnnnn. Listen: "Secret Society" by Seattle's OC Notes 2011-06-22T16:28:06Z

Mike Stud’s understanding of the difference between his usual show and the Orlando outlier suggests at least a whiff of self-awareness about his unusual relationship to the rest of hip-hop. White Rappers, Clear of a Black Planet 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

The night was set to close with a performance by Seattle hip-hop duo and local favorite Shabazz Palaces, among others, at the main stage next to CenturyLink Field. Upstream Music Fest brings new energy to Seattle oldest neighborhood 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

Over a hip-hop beat, the rapper-turned-actor Common narrates “A Most Beautiful Thing” in an exhilarating, mythical tone. ‘A Most Beautiful Thing’ Review: New Life on the Water 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

The tunes range from hip-hop to oldies to ’80s rock, he said. Where Dancing, Not Drinking, Is the Point 2010-08-04T16:26:00Z

Each episode is inspired by lyrics from hip-hop songs, like Notorious B.I.G.’s “I Got a Story to Tell.” Rap Disrupted Music First. Now It’s TV and Film. 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Smoove recently told The New York Times that he actually got started in the entertainment industry as a hip-hop dancer, and mentioned to Conan that he’d be fine with competing on Dancing with the Stars. Watch Conan O'Brien Take a Tango Lesson From JB Smoove 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

In his latest work, the poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib traces the story of the pioneering hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest over the past three decades. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Electrified in Chicago, it presaged hip-hop as an idiom designed to express black urban hardship at high decibels. The thrill is gone. So is B.B. King. Now what happens to blues music? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The lyrics performed by Common use an epithet heard frequently in rap and hip-hop songs, as when the rapper boasts to Kanye West, “I’m about to win the Grammys now.” ArtsBeat Blog: Maya Angelou Says She's Disappointed With Common After Collaboration 2011-12-19T14:39:50Z

His life would span the war on drugs, the rapid expansion of the prison-industrial complex, a black power reprise, the mainstream recognition of hip-hop — and all the pitfalls therein. In Tupac’s life, the struggles and triumphs of a generation 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

And if any dance artist could groove out a church, it would be Harris, the hip-hop master who has become one of the most exacting and exciting choreographers of his generation. Review: Finding a Collective Groove in Church and in House Dance 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

The R&B/hip-hop group, one of the biggest-selling girl groups of all time, announced it would record its first album in more than a dozen years. TLC's fans are 'No Scrubs,' push group to Kickstarter goal in three days 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The lineup has included a children’s workshop and hip-hop poetry. In England, Cheltenham Enjoys a Cultural Renaissance 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Hip-hop DJs can go anywhere because we care more about music, we know more about music than everybody just from the nature of how hip-hop is made. Talib Kweli on hip-hop, Rudy "Ghouliani" and how Kanye West can make amends for supporting Trump 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

With blaxploitation movies or the early hip-hop movies, there was a real symbiosis between music and film. Chris Rock and Questlove Discuss 'Top Five' 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

There were supposed to be three albums: the first, “Swimming,” was sort of the hybridization of going between hip-hop and song form. Mac Miller and Jon Brion Had a Vision. It Almost Came True. 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

Still, Das Racist remains unsigned, perhaps because even though it’s built a fan and touring base from scratch, the group excels at something no hip-hop scene has ever had much time for: comedy. Critic?s Notebook: Reliving Rap?s Down-and-Dirty Early Days 2011-02-12T00:00:15Z

The venue for this session of hip-hop scratching, Gypsy clashing and downright banging Balkan beats is The Tunnels, a long-mooted and very, very handsome new venue next to Temple Meads station. Clubs picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:13:00Z

Letting the dancers freestyle is important, Blankenbuehler says, because the key concept of the show is equating the revolutionaries with hip-hop culture. ‘Hamilton’ choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler delivers a revolution that rocks  2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

The festival is set to open this week and includes everything from talks about the importance of bees to a performance by Bhutanese hip-hop dancers. A New, Flourishing Literary Scene in the Real Shangri-La 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

So when Mr. Lighty partnered some of his clients with Sprite, the results were some of the most viscerally hip-hop ads of the day. An Appraisal: Chris Lighty, Hip-Hop Manager, Changed Music 2012-08-31T16:55:02Z

He grew up at a time when hip-hop was growing quickly but was still seen as a sound and style that was best kept at arm’s length. An Appraisal: Chris Lighty, Hip-Hop Manager, Changed Music 2012-08-31T16:55:02Z

Some comedians unfurl yarns in the unhurried mode of a jam band, others display the taut rhythms of pop or hip-hop. Only Gilbert Gottfried Could Be So Dirty and So Heartbreaking 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

On Tuesday, Diggs’ experimental hip-hop trio clipping. announced its third album, titled “Splendor & Misery,” which drops Sept. 9.  What's next for the stars of 'Hamilton'? 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Collectively, their music allows listeners to hear hip-hop that has the freedom to be masculine or feminine, shy or bold, rebellious or traditional, interchangeably or all at once. Is Rap Finally Ready To Embrace Its Women? 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

The main event was a performance by the up-and-coming Passion Fruit Dance Company, which is dedicated to transferring the dance and culture of house and hip-hop from the club to the stage. Review: Passion Fruit Dance Company Brings the Club to the Stage 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z

The show covers the birth of hip-hop; feminist video chain letters, zines and performance art; the emergence of music videos; and the rise of digital sound and images. The Week Ahead: Feb.13 ? 19 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

They moshed, danced around, and threw their hands up to dancehall, American R&B and hip-hop, UK funky, dubstep and grime. Pow!: anthem for kettled youth 2011-02-03T21:30:00Z

"When you have a culture where their identity has been stripped away through genocide . . . hip-hop was there to help us with our identity, I think," Harjo said. "Reservation Dogs" creator on evolving the show's representation & storytelling: "It's not finished" 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

In its mid-1990s and early-century prime, Murder Dog — the utilitarian, stark, fanatical rap magazine from the Bay Area — offered a far less gentrified take on hip-hop than its competitors. Reissues: ’50s Moxie, ’60s Soul and ’90s Hip-Hop 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

What New York began to lack as it lost its grip on the hip-hop center were true personalities. Music Review: Food on His Mind, and in His Stomach as Well 2011-07-26T21:45:30Z

“When I was coming up, if you wanted to produce hip-hop music, the way you did that was by producing rappers,” Mr. Moo said. MUSIC: Flying Lotus and the Los Angeles Electronica Scene 2010-05-29T04:26:00Z

Next up was the composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain’s “Voodoo Violin Concerto,” a 25-minute work from 2002 that reflects his Haitian heritage but also fuses elements of hip-hop, jazz and classical contemporary styles. Review: The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Returns, With Gusto 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

There are lines between blues and Mississippi hip-hop, but they're meandering, and very thin. Flow like the river: Big K.R.I.T. and Mississippi's flood of hip-hop 2013-03-27T10:43:27Z

Mr. Medina is fluent in house, hip-hop, Afrobeat, soul and all of the slivers in between. New Year’s Eve 2017: A Guide to Music and Comedy Events 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Jay-Z leads nominees with five nods, including best male hip-hop artist and two for video of the year, for "Empire State of Mind" and "Run This Town." Jay-Z leads nominees at music-filled BET Awards 2010-06-27T12:23:00Z

She was an instinctive fit on hip-hop tracks, singing the hooks on massive hits by T.I. and Eminem, and, later, proving she had sultry musical chemistry with Drake. Rihanna: Since She’s Been Gone 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

Initially, I recorded a double album – one soul record and one hip-hop – which worked together to tell Strickland's story. Plan B: 'Strickland Banks may be soul, but it's still real life' 2010-12-16T22:29:00Z

For the past 20 years, Koubi and his all-male company have presented intensely physical performances that draw on hip-hop and contemporary dance, martial arts and capoeira to celebrate and analyze the many facets of masculinity. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Poverty isn't noble, and it should never, ever be celebrated, but what it does do is create the perfect conditions for hip-hop to explode. Flow like the river: Big K.R.I.T. and Mississippi's flood of hip-hop 2013-03-27T10:43:27Z

“Tha Carter V” was originally teased with a May 5 release date, only to be pushed, in typical major-label hip-hop fashion, to Oct. Lil Wayne Blames Label for Latest Album Delay 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

In many cases, this means that those of us who grew up loving hip-hop are now both the creators and the consumers of these stories. Rap Disrupted Music First. Now It’s TV and Film. 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

And his music proved irresistible to crate-digging hip-hop producers: “Funky Snakefoot,” the title track of his second album, provides the indelible opening drum fill for the Beastie Boys’ “Shake Your Rump.” Alphonse Mouzon, Jazz and Fusion Drummer, Dies at 68 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

But Skin is also a hip-hop album, and a successful one at that. Flume's New Album Skin Is The Gritty Future of Electronic Music 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Because while everything about hip-hop stems from the black experience, those who most often write about it for the largest audiences don’t share that same common background. Perspective | Covering hip-hop: Why more publications should prioritize diverse perspectives 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

This was Drake making an in-joke to the hip-hop internet of the early to mid-2000s, while acknowledging how fans of all stripes would love to briefly inhabit the skin of their heroes. Drake: Rap’s Biggest Fan 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z

"He's sort of taken some inspiration from Snoop as this lovable pothead kind of dude," says Elliott Wilson, founder of the hip-hop website RapRadar.com. Rapper Wiz Khalifa surges to fame with new album 2011-04-07T16:01:04Z

Instinctively, he switches his radio from a loud, thumping hip-hop track to a soft piano tune. Fictional Police Brutality, Real Emotional Toll 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

The Glitch Mob, one of very few acts to include live instruments, sometimes pounded on three sets of drums to push its hip-hop remixes even further into bass-heavy foreboding. Music Review: Hard-Driving Star D.J.?s Serve Up the Thumps 2010-09-06T22:48:00Z

"It's seen as a very misogynist word in hip-hop but we're trying to numb it," Morgan explains. Zebra Katz: 'Creating a strong, black, queer male is something that needed to happen' 2013-05-25T18:00:00Z

If anything, with his backwards baseball cap and goatee, the 35-year-old comes across like a parody of a terminally angry hip-hop teenager, railing against complacency and injustice from the second he arrives on stage. Immortal Technique – review 2013-06-17T13:47:40Z

Rolling Loud — which has rapidly become the most essential annual hip-hop festival — was the fire-hot center of the SoundCloud rap explosion last year. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

“We don’t need Bollywood to make hip-hop big. Bollywood needs us.” Indian audiences shun spectacle with Bollywood's first hip-hop film 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Chicago’s hip-hop community is in a war of words that has escalated into violence, with the shooting death of a teenage rapper. Chicago hip-hop war of words turns violent 2012-09-06T05:40:00Z

The all-day event features a lineup of 15 artists from across the U.S. performing in popular genres from R&B and hip-hop to Khmer balladry and electronic dance music. Cambodian Music Festival salutes tradition, new artists paving the way 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

The album includes “Children’s Story,” familiar to most through Montell Jordan’s “This Is How We Do It” and the lyric “Once upon a time, not long ago,” a catchphrase in mainstream hip-hop. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Co-ed hip-hop collective G Side, from Huntsville, Ala., played one of the conference's most impressive sets so far. SXSW gets an injection of Alabama soul and hip-hop 2012-03-15T06:05:00Z

“So,” he continues, “when trying to catalog hip-hop in full, it’s only reasonable to lean into the cacophony.” 50 Rappers, 50 Stories: Hear the Remix 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z

“Just Wright” intersperses the suds with zippy basketball sequences that feature NBA pros, and a hip-hop soundtrack that steers the film to a mild, steady beat. | 'Just Wright': Queen Latifah Meets Her Prince 2010-05-13T21:09:00Z

Then I started going out to hip-hop clubs. Kate Tempest: the performance poet who can't be ignored 2013-04-10T14:50:13Z

Created in England in 1999, it exists without corporate sponsorship or mainstream headliners, playing host to a slew of avant-garde noise music, indie rock and underground hip-hop acts. | All Tomorrow's Parties 2010-10-11T15:01:00Z

As the cast member with the closest ties to the hip-hop industry, Sticky Fingaz says he helped out with the verisimilitude, pitching in on “some dialogue, maybe some wardrobe choices.” Before ‘Empire,’ a Foundation Laid by ‘Platinum’ 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Way Out West, Goteborg, Sweden This genre-bending music festival, from Aug. 8 to 10, brings together electronic, rock and hip-hop acts in Goteborg’s sprawling Slottsskogen park. In Transit Blog: Calendar: Coming Events in New Orleans; Wisconsin; Goteborg, Sweden 2013-07-26T17:00:09Z

American composer George Gershwin's Depression era opera Porgy and Bess has been updated in a multi-media production which will include a hip-hop and contemporary dance company. New world theme at Edinburgh fest 2010-03-17T10:06:00Z

He’s done two masterpiece hip-hop albums in the last few years, so I believe he deserved every one of those Grammys. For his latest tour, CeeLo Green is riding his train of love home 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

“Street Sounds,” the station’s only show devoted to local and national hip-hop, will move from its 6-9 p.m. Do you want to be a DJ? KEXP revamping weekend lineup and looking for on-air talent 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Over the last two years, he’s become one of the most visible voices in grime, England’s homegrown hip-hop offshoot, with a combination of lyrical aggression and personal modesty. Review: Stormzy Delivers Grime Music From Britain 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

"I think it made Barack Obama and more people like him possible, so I'm really thankful for hip-hop and the role it plays in society," he continued. Legend, 2 Chainz, MC Lyte honored at Hip-Hop Ball 2013-01-21T07:42:10Z

Two years later, Atlanta’s hip-hop community is hoping to reach folks who would otherwise feel disinclined to vote, in support of another potentially historic candidate. Atlanta rappers are backing Stacey Abrams. And it all goes back to Young Jeezy. 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

One objective for the Madrids in New York is to pave the way for more opportunities for hip-hop and urban dancers to apply their skills in long-form, long-running projects. Can a Hip-Hop Dance Show Settle In Off Broadway? 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Local hip-hop fans are long familiar with Gifted Gab. Gifted Gab and Lil Mosey, two very different Seattle rappers, are blowing up online 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

Its bookers are unparalleled at providing the boldface rock, country, funk and hip-hop artists of the moment; the film and comedy are excellent to boot. Summer Stages 2012-05-17T19:59:09Z

Snoop Dogg paid tribute to a "true legend of hip-hop and R&B". Hip-hop star Nate Dogg dies at 41 2011-03-16T16:03:07Z

Public Enemy was inducted on its first ballot appearance, swelling the ranks of hip-hop entries. Vindication for 2013 Rock Hall of Fame inductees 2012-12-11T19:27:09Z

Woofers and subwoofers weren’t the only part of the sound system Bassnectar brought to Governors Island on Saturday for Bass Island, a marathon of dance music and hip-hop. Music Review: When the Bass Is Like a Conqueror, Crushing the Guitars and Words 2011-08-14T22:30:28Z

But Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg — while among the most recognizable hip-hop veterans with decades of hits and pop culture cachet between them — represent something different, and that may be the idea. How Hip-Hop Inched Its Way to the Super Bowl Halftime Stage 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

The hip-hop artist, 39, also claims that Rich Kid Entertainment Inc made deals to allow record labels to reproduce his work without telling him. Jailed rapper sues royalties firm 2010-04-27T12:01:00Z

Now the lawmakers’ use of the term functions as “a call-in for folks, if you get the joke and find this funny,” said Jeff Chang, a scholar of race and hip-hop. ‘Squad’ jumped from pop culture to become the most politically polarizing word of the year 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

A. I tried to compose a song — I was in the United States and it was all about hip-hop at the time, ’99-2000. | Psy: Interview: Psy, the Artist Behind ‘Gangnam Style’ 2012-10-11T18:58:39Z

The cultural impact of the genre-busting hip-hop smash has given the originals cache and created a springboard to bigger platforms. The original ‘Hamilton’ stars aren’t throwing away their shots 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

He rapped in Westlake Center freestyle circles for a time — the hip-hop equivalent of chess in the park — and in 2005, released a popular album called "The Language of My World." Seattle rapper Macklemore ready to take a shot at pop stardom 2011-02-10T05:20:43Z

It is also, surely, the first hip-hop record to feature the lyric "I need the bailout money to stimulate the economy". Wyclef Jean: 'Fans are calling me the new Dylan' 2010-12-05T21:30:00Z

De La Soul’s biggest hit was also De La Soul’s biggest albatross: The Day-Glo visuals around its single and video promptly burdened the group with the label “hip-hop hippies.” Trugoy the Dove of De La Soul’s 10 Essential Songs 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

He was a valuable criticizer of racism in America, and a soothsayer about hip-hop, even giving Kanye West his first TV performance. With 10 Seattle shows , does Chappelle have a third act in him? | Comedy preview 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

But then hip-hop exploded into the mainstream in the 1990s, sparking the biggest music revolution in 50 years. Study of 17,000 Songs Finds That Hip-Hop Made Most Impact 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

"More to the point," adds Chang, "the range of visual tricks available now to the bedroom auteur is analogous to the range of sonic tricks available to the basic hip-hop producer." It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z

The approach is at least promising: a sort of hip-hop “Twilight Zone” anthology piece, adapting the spirit of the song rather than its text. Review: In BET’s ‘Tales,’ Rap Lyrics Get Lost in Translation 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

There was even an RIP Barb rap from hip-hop duo Dr Chorizo. Shannon Purser: ‘People have actually had Barb’s face tattooed on their bodies’ 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

Today, he’s an educator and performer, and one of the best-known Native hip-hop acts. Fighting the power and speaking for the earth: The explosion of Native American hip-hop 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

The performance of Mr. Moore, a young actor who came up through Atlanta’s hip-hop dance scene, refutes typecasting. Breakthrough Performances of the Summer Movies Season 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

I’m telling you, man, I’m the bridge — the bridge between hip-hop and R&B, R&B and pop. After more than four decades, Charlie Wilson says stopping ‘is not an option’ 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Space Dolphin is Damon Johnson, maker of rippling, lapping hip-hop productions. Wavy new sounds from Seattle's Hibou and Space Dolphin 2012-12-04T20:46:04Z

Looking sharp in a beige suit, orange gingham button-down and pristine white Adidas sneakers, he hit the dance floor with Ms. George, and for a flashing moment, looked like a guru — the hip-hop sort. Scene City: Channeling Inner Peace, With Air-Conditioning 2011-08-03T21:00:34Z

I preferred it when it was just Mars, the ultimate downtown hip-hop club, and Florent.” The High Line, by Day and Night - NYC 2011-08-26T21:49:05Z

Generally, Pitchfork favors dance music outsiders, but its relationship to hip-hop is less consistent. Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago Welcomes a Polyglot of Styles 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

Once the opium dropper comes out and the minuets transition to hip-hop, you know you’re in for a good time. Review | In Apple TV+’s initial smattering of shows, only ‘Dickinson’ is a delicious surprise 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Both groups fuse the pleasures and politics of hip-hop with electronics and local traditions, ending up with very different kinds of rooted yet forward-looking music. Critic?s Notebook: Musical Ambition, Defying All Barriers 2011-07-08T22:31:28Z

As it turns out, a wooden and uncomfortable style of acting, paired with some limp writing from a staff that clearly knew precious little about hip-hop. Saturday Night Live: the best and worst musical hosts 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

I came close to finding my cohort when hip-hop was just beginning to kick in. Finders keepers: my favourite piece of clothing 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

That’s one of the reasons the hip-hop community, particularly in the Tacoma area, was elated by the news of Lewie’s record deal. Seattle hip-hop is on a hot streak. Can it finally get the national respect it deserves? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Artists in those genres will criticize hip-hop, and don’t understand it. Angie Thomas Lets Hip-Hop Speak in Her New Novel, ‘On the Come Up’ 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Rap is now officially the biggest music genre in the United States after surpassing rock in 2017, but the odds are historically stacked against a hip-hop artist winning album of the year at the Grammys. 2018 Grammys: Will hip-hop finally even the score? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

Then there’s the cultural capital of hip-hop, whose enormity can disguise how recently it was accrued. Hip-Hop’s New Wave of Lyricism 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

They met eight years ago, “through the magic of dance,” Mr. Jacinto said, referring to a hip-hop dance crew he joined while studying at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Manny Jacinto of ‘The Good Place’ Plummets to Earth 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

But in the same way that hip-hop is able to manifest its politics without overtness, much of the music Ms. Monáe has been fiddling with is also comfortably next-wave without advertising itself as such. Janelle Monáe, and Other Wondaland Artists, Step Back in Time at the Highline Ballroom 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

Seattle’s two most creative and progressive hip-hop groups play the same bill. Arts and entertainment highlights for the week of Dec. 23 2012-12-20T00:49:36Z

The art of collaboration — especially in hip-hop — is a tricky thing. Killer Mike and El-P sounds more together than ever on ‘Run the Jewels 3’ 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

In the rap/hip-hop and pop/rock categories, Drake is up for favorite male artist, favorite album and favorite song with “God’s Plan.” Taylor Swift, Cardi B set for American Music Awards 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

OK, they looked about as hip-hop as Cliff Richard, but, as ever, they sounded great. Rewind TV: Shameless; Episodes; Kidnap and Ransom; Human Planet ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:49Z

Both The Grouch and Eligh were founding members of Living Legends, a fiercely independent crew renowned by fans of lyric-driven, positive hip-hop. Your week in Seattle music: Bobby Brown and Ginuwine, tUnE-yArDs and more 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Her current concert calendar includes Gorillaz and Phoenix, so maybe there'll be hits of hip-hop and electronica in the new fall collection that will debut next month at New York Fashion Week. New book highlights Sui's career of cool catwalks 2011-01-06T21:21:10Z

The festival will feature more than 60 national and local bands — mostly indie rock, hip-hop, and electronic — on several indoor and outdoor stages. Capitol Hill Block Party expands to three days 2010-05-18T20:15:00Z

A warrant was issued for the 19-year-old hip-hop star’s arrest after he failed to appear at a preliminary hearing on Wednesday in Lewis County Superior Court. Seattle rap star Lil Mosey charged with rape in Lewis County 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Looking to catch up on the hits of vital Chicago hip-hop producer No I.D., who's work has helped transform pop music over the last two decades? Throwbacks: New old sounds from Devo, No ID, Who, Jesse Saunders, more 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

The first loser, a hip-hop hippopotamus who dabbed effortlessly to Bobby Brown’s “My Prerogative,” revealed himself to be a very handsome N.F.L. wide receiver. Our Masked Singers, Ourselves 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Now, the two friends are frequently lumped together as part of Chicago's rising, young hip-hop community, which in recent years has seen artists such as Chief Keef burst into national prominence. Mensa moves smartly after breakup of Kids 2013-11-30T06:00:00Z

“All the hip-hop people, when they all came on the show, they all were like, ‘Martha, pleasure to meet you, I love you.’” What Would You Serve With Gin and Juice? At the Table With Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

Rock, who was born Robert Ritchie and grew up in Macomb County, Mich., is known for dabbling in a variety of musical styles, from hip-hop and hard rock to country and Southern rock. Kid Rock presents checks to 5 Detroit-area groups 2011-05-16T20:10:20Z

This performance space’s annual dance series celebrates its 20th anniversary with two programs on consecutive weekends focusing on the social potency of hip-hop dance. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

The short description of Seattle trio Flexions' music: atmospheric rock with guitars and drums, put together hip-hop style, with lots of digital sampling. Review roundup: five local, late-summer albums of note 2011-08-19T19:01:15Z

In some of that slipping footwork, I sensed James Brown, and in some of the poses I thought I saw hip-hop postures, inflected with a foreign physical accent. Dance Review: Souleymane Badolo and Cynthia Oliver at New York Live Arts 2013-04-28T21:01:39Z

How do ancient Asian mythology, kung fu movies and hip-hop relate for you? RZA Accompanies ‘The 36th Chamber of Shaolin’ 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

The London-based multi-instrumentalist’s latest album, “More Arriving,” is a vibrant cacophony of Indian classical music, jazz and hip-hop that takes aim at cultural stereotypes and negative attitudes to immigration. Beyond the Stereotypes, a New View of Indian Music 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

They write in a dizzying array of style and genre — gospel, hip-hop, girl group, boy band, calypso, yodeling. Theater Listings for June 27-July 3 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

The band took their name from a song by Bristolian hip-hop artist Tricky "Everything stems from personal experiences, then I build a world around the seed I've put down on paper." The Naked and Famous: Making waves 2013-09-20T06:39:28Z

I became a service person, hip-hop was my military. As hip-hop turns 50, Chuck D praises its power as "a worldwide cultural experience and religion" 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

Over the last four decades, hip-hop has emerged as the lingua franca of global pop culture, a force that has gleefully imposed itself in every corner and crevice. Pitbull Moves Beyond Hip-Hop and Into the Unknown on ‘Climate Change’ 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

The French coming-of-age movie “Cuties,” about a Senegalese Muslim girl who joins a hip-hop troupe, was being celebrated and censored even before its world premiere. What the ‘Cuties’ Critics Can’t See: The Complexities of Black Girlhood 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

This is how hip-hop works now — an idiosyncratic stylist finds fervor online and builds a cult atop it, a mechanism that couldn’t be further from the Grammys stage. How the Grammys Bring Rebels Into the Fold 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

Others are epic in their own way: beat-based tracks perfect for mixing with hip-hop a capellas or for use on some future Kanye West project.  Aphex Twin streams new EP 'Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments 2' 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Q: I’d be interested in where you first heard rap or hip-hop and how it struck you. Quincy Jones, master of firsts, arrives to open a museum 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

By now the nexus of jazz and hip-hop is thoroughly strip-mined terrain. Live Jazz: 3 May Standouts, From Sullivan Fortner to Dana Murray 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Black America’s only real intrusion into our consciousness came through popular culture: professional sports, bootleg hip-hop cassettes our friends were passing around, and “Cosby.” My one black friend 2012-07-04T16:00:00Z

Last year, WorldStar started “The Field,” a documentary series focused on communities in American cities where hip-hop thrives; Chicago was first, followed by an episode focused on the Miami that lies beyond South Beach. The Creator of WorldStarHipHop Plots His Second Act 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

The resulting “Poetic Voices” series involved two hip-hop and jazz events at the Phillips. A poetry museum that eschews having a home 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

With her new LP "Sound the Bells: Recorded Live at Orchestra Hall," the indie singer teams up with the Grammy award-winning Minnesota Orchestra to produce an exquisite mergence of hip-hop artistry and classical music. Dessa's "Sound the Bells": Indie hip-hop collides with an explosive orchestral score 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

Azealia Banks’ debut album, Broke With Expensive Taste, is sort of like the Loch Ness Monster of hip-hop: no one actually expected it would show itself in this lifetime. Azealia Banks Just Beyoncé'd Her Long-Awaited Album 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Even if your ears can’t detect Hunt’s fluency in country, hip-hop and R&B, his syncretic ballads still do the work of classic country songs: They tell accessible, unambiguous stories that convey genuine emotional truths. Still think today’s country music sounds fake? Get real. 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Their debut album of the same name was released on the record label Dreamville, founded by fellow hip-hop artist J. Cole. Listen: From EarthGang to Night Hikes and more, a playlist of songs by musicians playing in Seattle Jan. 10-16 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

They felt like something I recognized from hip-hop. Lonnae O’Neal: Obama’s State of the Union ‘Booyah!’ is an OMG moment 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Although hip-hop stars frequently sampled the soul music of his era, Mr. Womack refused most requests by others to use his recordings in their work, he told a British interviewer in 2004. Bobby Womack, Songwriter and Musician, Dies at 70 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

He didn’t even bother to show up for the broadcast, which was well enough, because hip-hop was almost completely marginalized, reduced to a token Lil Wayne verse during the dance-music collision. Critic?s Notebook: At the 54th Grammy Awards, Everything Old Is Praised Again 2012-02-13T19:47:24Z

I see hip-hop continuing to be a guiding light for the evolution of society. RZA Accompanies ‘The 36th Chamber of Shaolin’ 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Digga D is a leading voice in Britain’s drill scene, a subgenre of hip-hop featuring eerie piano melodies layered over droning bass lines, and lyrics portraying life in some of the country’s most deprived neighborhoods. For British Drill Stars, the Police Are Listening Closely 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Most likely to: Star in a hip-hop update of the Partridge Family, where they all wear backwards baseball caps and chunky trainers. New band of the day ? No 809: Mike Posner 2010-06-16T15:25:00Z

Indeed, there’s a lot to like about this year’s diverse roster, heavily dosed with psych/garage rockers and hip-hop luminaries. Ballard’s Freakout Festival brings psych rockers and hip-hop renegades to 8 venues this weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

Drake didn't show, though he was named best male hip-hop artist. Houston tribute, obscenities highlight BET Awards 2012-07-02T14:40:50Z

Minaj is also up for female hip-hop artist, a trophy she has won consecutively for the last five years. Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, Beyonce, Lil' Wayne lead 2015 BET Award nods 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Two familiar New York voices shared the radio airwaves on Thursday, talking as usual about hip-hop, but up higher on the dial. Hot 97, a Hip-Hop Pioneer on Radio, Reaches a Crossroads 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

“Hamilton,”a thrilling hip-hop musical that retells the story of one of the nation’s founding fathers, was announced as the 2016 Pulitzer winner for drama on Monday. “Hamilton” wins a Pulitzer and Twitter finally explodes with joy rather than rage 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

“Contact High” tells the history of how hip-hop learned to pose in front of the camera. How Hip-Hop Learned to Pose for the Camera 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Casino nightclubs that a few years ago were devoted to hip-hop now compete to sign dance acts to million-dollar contracts, and they market these once invisible musicians as superstars. D.J.’s and Dance Music Are the New Stars in Las Vegas 2012-06-11T21:57:39Z

The music is produced by DJ Premier — also an executive producer — whose granular understanding of the texture of late 1980s and early 1990s hip-hop is beyond reproach. Review: ‘The Breaks’ Captures Hip-Hop in the ’90s, Music and All 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Many of Ty$’s sultry-voiced cohort don’t sound good in a live setting — the understated, modulated vocals pervasive in the current style of hip-hop and R&B do not always work without studio help. Ty Dolla $ign likes to talk about the tour bus, but he’s pretty good onstage

Who among us has not felt the urge listen to an early 80s German punk band essaying hip-hop? Old music: Die Toten Hosen ? Hip Hop Bommi Bop 2012-02-09T09:23:05Z

After nine hours of assertive New York City hip-hop, Snoop Dogg’s set was a dose of California cool; half the audience drifted away. Music Review: Hip-Hop History, Recreated by Those Who Made It 2010-08-29T23:06:00Z

In recent years, plenty of high-fashion companies have attempted to incorporate hip-hop language or swagger or silhouettes into their collections, but those conversations have generally felt strained, clearly the product of observation. Virgil Abloh, Ambassador and Infiltrator 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

The two loneliest howlers in hip-hop unite for a meditation on the joylessness of fame. Carly Rae Jepsen’s Brand-New Boy Problems, and 7 More New Songs 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

With its share of courtroom drama, music industry shoptalk and thoughtful analysis, the series is finely calibrated to appeal to true-crime junkies, hip-hop fans and champions of social justice alike. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Upstairs in The Bedroom, the Dutty Girl Collective are in control with D&B and dirty hip-hop, plus deep bassline and grime. Clubs picks of the week 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

This brief combination of American hip-hop and Italian opera results in a strangely assonant, haunting intro. Jay-Z Channels Nirvana: A Look Back at His 7 Most Unexpected Samples 2013-07-09T19:42:02Z

Harris as they search for the country’s next great hip-hop talent. Netflix's best new releases in October, from the "Breaking Bad" movie to "Big Mouth" 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

The rap episode became a favorite, and whenever Mr. Theroux made the publicity rounds for a new project, interviewers would inevitably ask him about his hip-hop foray. How Louis Theroux Became a ‘Jiggle Jiggle’ Sensation at Age 52 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

He’s also a musician working on his own EP, which he says is a mix of R&B, hip-hop and alternative genres, and plans to release it later this year. New fresh prince Jabari Banks is ready to conquer ‘Bel-Air’ 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

Writing was a salve for her, she said, but she wasn’t expecting the music, with glimmers of the hip-hop syncopation that have been her hallmark, to connect so deeply. Kelsea Ballerini Is Ready for Lift Off 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

Muldrow was the first woman signed to the hip-hop label Stones Throw Records, for her debut album. Georgia Anne Muldrow Builds a Musical World of Her Own 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

The rinks also played a pivotal role in the early promotion of hip-hop. And the Beat Goes On 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

The days of abrasion are seemingly gone in hip-hop — smoothness of various stripes rules the radio, thanks to years of cross-pollination with R&B and pop. Critic’s Notebook: Growlers Finding a Refuge in Dance 2014-04-23T21:55:54Z

Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Baloji was sent by his wealthy dad to live in Belgium where his troubled teenage life found expression in the successful hip-hop group Starflam. This week's new live music 2012-11-24T00:05:34Z

Their steps, performed mainly in sneakers, are rooted in hip-hop. At ‘The Prom’ on Broadway, It’s Time to Dance (and Flip) 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

I was so unmoved by my first viewing of his lyrical hip-hop with Comfort that I was shocked by his level of emotion in front of the judges. Stepping, samba and more damaged goods on "SYTYCD" 2010-07-22T12:01:00Z

But the most popular section — with the audience at least — was a screening of a YouTube video in which a painfully conservative white woman demonstrates how to dance hip-hop. Dance Review: Kyle Abraham?s ?Live! The Realest MC? at the Kitchen - Review 2011-12-12T23:34:52Z

The National will belt morose anthems at 9:45, while the hip-hop group Brockhampton, rebuilding after the departure of one of its members, closes the night at 10:30. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Quantico’ and Lollapalooza 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

“We Are Freestyle Love Supreme” documents the improvised hip-hop show that Miranda and several of his “Hamilton” collaborators regularly put on before “In the Heights” altered Miranda’s trajectory, and which they recently reformed on Broadway. At Sundance, Lin-Manuel Miranda shares the spotlight 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

But improvements in technology soon gave hip-hop producers the ability to sample records freely — the opposite of Mr. Smith’s approach. Larry Smith, Hip-Hop Producer, Dies at 63 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Governors Ball on Satuday also had a hip-hop contingent that was as triumphal as Guns N’ Roses. ArtsBeat: After the Rain, a Night of Rock 2013-06-09T19:08:59Z

Murder Dog sent writers to a cities not widely considered hip-hop hotbeds, then interviewed and photographed liberally. Reissues: ’50s Moxie, ’60s Soul and ’90s Hip-Hop 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

With "Reggie" out and two more albums on the way, Redman said he's hungry to contribute a unique perspective to the hip-hop community. Redman drops new album 2010-12-08T03:54:00Z

Following in the footsteps of Kanye West and Pharrell Williams, he understood from his earliest incarnation that hip-hop was no longer strictly music, but also style, attitude and disruption. Tyler, the Creator and Kevin Abstract, Self-Invented Hip-Hop Confessionalists 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

Most hip-hop acts and posses are, proudly and ostentatiously, their own brands, touting their own success and coining their own slogans. Critic’s Notebook: South by Southwest Festival Starts to Feel Corporate 2014-03-16T22:44:49Z

But A Boogie’s sound acknowledges the youthful power of the internet and the now-default inclusion of melody in hip-hop while still being rooted in old-fashioned New York roughneck business. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Modernizes New York Hip-Hop 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Now, given how speedy tempos are across pop, hip-hop, R&B and more, they seem like prescient geniuses, though still absurd. The Week Ahead: Aug. 14 ? 20 2011-08-11T15:36:07Z

I think to see, to understand Biz Markie is to understand what the essence of hip-hop is. Biz Markie was the "essence of hip-hop": Hailing the rapper who made us laugh as hip-hop turns 50 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z

Public Enemy changed everything: not just for hip-hop but for the world. Get rich or die tryin': how hip-hop changed the world 2011-08-10T14:29:52Z

A hip-hop dance class and golf workshops are also part of the fun. Spare Times for Children, for June 28-July 4 2013-06-27T21:20:15Z

The South Side rapper, born Chancellor Bennett 20 years ago, is one of the rising stars in hip-hop after releasing an acclaimed 2013 mix tape, "Acid Rap." Over-sold Chance the Rapper show shut down at South by Southwest 2014-03-12T07:36:00Z

Originally published in the January 1995 Shambhala Sun magazine, this interview finds Yauch after the release of “Ill Communication,” candidly talking about about hip-hop, hardcore, helping people and his relationship to Buddhism’s Bodhisattva Vow. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z

It has a solid black middle and upper class, possesses a vibrant soul and hip-hop music scene and serves as a base of black political power. Super Bowl LIII and the soul of Atlanta 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

She sold drugs to help fund Lucious’s early hip-hop career, giving him $30,000 to fund his first album and setting him on the road to success. How to catch up with … Empire 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

Disco appetizers moving into European House music, but never shying away from old-school hip-hop and other upbeat dance tracks. A Party Spot Opens Near Chinatown 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

Her next project, “Hallucinogen” from 2015, expanded her palette further, adding collaborations with DJ Dahi, a hip-hop producer, and Arca, an experimental artist and producer with a vast sense of what electronic music can be. How the R&B Innovator Kelela Unlocked a New Level 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

American jazz greats Herbie Hancock and Al Jarreau will please the purists, while hip-hop group The Roots become the first rap act to play at the festival in its 37-year history. Trip Tips: Mozart to Masekela, summer festivals for all tastes 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Next up is an old-school, hip-hop beat with a vocal from Bill himself. Ten Cities, a million tunes 2013-07-07T18:00:02Z

Returning to hip-hop after such a run is an unenviable task, his voice now arguably far more recognisable from this other part of his portfolio career. Music picks of the week 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

These artists share as much in common with the lacerating introspection of indie-rock as they do with the chest-thumping celebration of mainstream R&B and hip-hop.     Concert review: The Weeknd at Lincoln Hall 2012-05-04T06:09:00Z

When he met Crowell, a Nashville songwriter and producer who’d cut his teeth making hip-hop beats for Southern rappers, they immediately clicked. Sam Hunt Brought Hip-Hop to Country. After ‘Old Town Road,’ He’s Back. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

The Booksellers interviews, for instance, Arthur Fournier, a rare book dealer who managed the archives of Michael Holman, the first writer to use the words hip-hop in an East Village Eye article in 1982. 'It cuts across time': a peek into the world of antiquarian books 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Besides trying to educate the hip-hop arena, we raise funds for families. After #OscarsSoWhite, Disability Waits for Its Moment 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z

Friday’s headliner is Kings of Leon, the devil-haunted Southern rockers with arena heft; Saturday features Stevie Wonder–who spreads enough peace and love to keep things hippie–followed by the hip-hop mogul Jay-Z. Bonnaroo: Heading South 2010-06-10T20:46:00Z

It’s a capital of hip-hop, but distinctively regional. Review: In FX’s ‘Atlanta,’ a Princeton Dropout Works the Angles Back Home 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

Batida plans to make this eventually sound like an early 80s hip-hop cut from Nairobi – even if there wasn't actually a hip-hop scene here then. Ten Cities, a million tunes 2013-07-07T18:00:02Z

But somehow you leave having expected more hip-hop and less balladry. Nicki Minaj; Dr Dee – review 2012-06-30T23:07:10Z

The station played a key role in the genre’s formative years in the 1980s when the original KDAY-AM became the first 24-hour hip-hop station in the country. Xzibit joins KDAY-FM, will debut 'Open Bar Radio' on Friday 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

His his history includes rapping with Evil Tambourines, a local hip-hop group signed to Sub Pop Records, and a lively solo career. Classic SEA rap vid: "It's About Time" by GMD 2011-09-20T13:00:08Z

"I sang on a hip-hop track in Germany recently with an African-American rapper," says Kidjo, who has a tendency to combine personal recollection with political reflection. Ang?lique Kidjo asks: 'Who are they to tell me what's African?' 2010-04-29T22:15:00Z

RZA and DJ Premier warmly traded stories about 1990s hip-hop; Teddy Riley and Babyface got off to a technologically inauspicious start, and their battle had to be rescheduled. How Hip-Hop Royalty Found a New Home on Instagram Live 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Stretch, 46, and Bobbito, 49, were immersed in hip-hop culture thanks to childhoods in the melting pot of Upper Manhattan. Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito, Hip-Hop Heralds, Are Saluted in a Film 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

What do you think about mainstream hip-hop and rap today? Musician Christylez Bacon stays ahead of the beat 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

The hip-hop duo are no strangers to the music game. Seattle-area music and nightlife events, March 1-7: Robyn, Atmosphere and more 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, a versatile choreographer whose work includes flamenco, hip-hop, classical ballet and contemporary dance pieces, is the recipient of the 2019 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, the organization announced on Wednesday. Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Wins Jacob Pillow Dance Award 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

Luxury labels enjoy a few spritzes of hip-hop; performers climb a little higher in the social hierarchy. Hip-hop was poised to conquer fashion. Why did it stop short? 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

So although dance music, like its distant cousin hip-hop, used to be about making the most from limited options in equipment, that’s no longer the case. Richie Hawtin's CNTRL series lifts the hood on how EDM is made and played 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

He also released “Cosmic Lieder,” a scintillating duo album with the saxophonist Darius Jones, and “Knives From Heaven,” with the bassist William Parker and members of Antipop Consortium, the alternative hip-hop crew. New Music: New Albums From Estelle, Lambchop and Matthew Shipp Trio 2012-02-27T23:36:19Z

The hip-hop entrepreneur said he was introduced to Luhrmann by Leonardo DiCaprio who plays the lead role of the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby in the movie and this led to a two-year collaboration. Jay-Z to put modern jazz twist on Gatsby soundtrack 2013-03-15T12:32:58Z

He moved to New York from Washington, D.C., soon after, and sought out the city’s creative spasms: jazz, art, literature, newly emergent hip-hop. The Peerless Imagination of Greg Tate 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

The exhibition chronicles how hip-hop grew from a Bronx subculture into one of the world’s most popular art forms. MoPOP’s ‘Contact High’ exhibit shows hip-hop’s most influential photos and the stories behind them 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

However, it certainly further clouds the debate surrounding the supposed homophobia of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, the Los Angeles hip-hop collective with which Ocean is affiliated. Frank Ocean: 'My first love was a man' 2012-07-04T09:48:34Z

A tribute to the 50th anniversary of hip-hop this summer? How a Jay-Z Retrospective Took Over the Brooklyn Public Library 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

The forceful drums, ample low-end and laid-back tempos appeal to a generation weaned on hip-hop. EDM star Flume blazes a new path 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Then a few weeks later after that, she reunited with the singer Monica on the beloved hip-hop and R&B webcast Verzuz, in a battle that has garnered over six million views. Brandy Scored Her ‘Dream Role’ in ‘Queens’ 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

This group plays a combo of hip-hop and reggae, but with elements of U.K. ’70s punk thrown in. Just in time for Bob Marley’s birthday: Iration plays 2 nights at Showbox 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

In a recent interview, composer Cooper said he had yet to see the show — having gone on a long European tour with his hip-hop band that began before "Recorded in Hollywood" opened. In 'Recorded in Hollywood,' Dolphin family's lore crosses over into R&B history 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Daedelus pushes throbbing loops, bass undercurrents and heavy hip-hop grooves into the red, hovering over boards, knobs and computer screens with a smirk on his face. Lollapalooza Day 3: Rain, more rain, and a Foo Fighters finale 2011-08-08T05:32:00Z

Although El Nino speaks warmly of the group's core audience, he's not completely happy with the way hip-hop in the country is going. Hip-hop: who represents Africa? 2011-02-17T21:59:01Z

“Twisted Fantasy” is a hip-hop album accessible to both insiders and outsiders, arriving in a moment in which other genres are as open-armed as ever. Critic?s Notebook: An Album and Its Buzz 2011-01-02T23:09:11Z

The delivery of his debut solo album, “Doris,” was a complex highlight of last summer’s hip-hop slate. Pop & Rock Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:01:49Z

Now, however, Nigerian artists who once mainly imitated U.S. hip-hop proudly include African beats and their local languages on their own energetic songs. Nigerian hip-hop, long a copy, grows into its own 2011-05-04T10:39:08Z

In truth, his fifth album 12 Bit Blues goes far beyond the tasteful colours of Moby and instead gives the blues a hip-hop overhaul: treating it as form as well as content. This week's new live music 2012-10-05T23:05:18Z

“And on top of it he’s incorporating elements from the hip-hop of that era.” Music: Robert Glasper Experiment to Release ?Black Radio? 2012-02-24T20:30:08Z

Later, hip-hop birthed its own class of singers — tough talkers with smooth edges — who did the work of softening that the samples once did while serving up more simpatico subject matter. Bryson Tiller and Other Singers Are Bringing Hip-Hop Into R&B 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

The hip-hop musical “Hamilton,” featuring a mainly black and Latino cast playing America’s founding fathers, has drawn a steady stream of boldface names since it began its sold-out run at the Public Theater in January. ‘Hamilton’ Puts Politics Onstage and Politicians in Attendance 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Combs quickly became indispensable and began doing A & R, working with Ms. Blige and Jodeci and helping to infuse them with hip-hop credibility. Andre Harrell, Executive Who Bridged Hip-Hop and R&B, Dies at 59 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

Heading the list of new R&B/hip-hop artists is B.o.B, with two of 2010's biggest hits: "Airplanes" featuring Hayley Williams and "Nothin' on You" with fellow newcomer Bruno Mars. Eminem's "Recovery" earns top spot on R&B/Hip-hop charts 2010-12-11T00:25:00Z

But the group’s music — sharp, sociopolitical rhymes set to impossibly cool jazz arrangements — has become a touchstone for generations of younger hip-hop artists. Pop & Rock Listings for Nov. 4-10 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

He’s popular but not especially accessible, the most cerebral hip-hop star of the day and also one of the most tepid. Review: Only Suspense at Summer Jam Was Outside the Stadium 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

His long con of making hip-hop in the image of his taste set worked. ASAP Yams, of ASAP Worldwide, Bridged Hip-Hop Regions and Generations 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Rags to riches is not just a hip-hop story — “it’s how everybody got on,” Gordon says. Lonnae O’Neal: Want to hear what blacks say when whites aren’t around? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Levine’s shrugging hip-hop affectations are spot-on and funny, and Mr. Ashe’s anxious eagerness to ingratiate himself with his friend strikes a touching chord. Review: ‘Kill Floor,’ a Drama About the Beef Dividing a Mother and Son 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

Taking his anguish, and how he is publicly perceived, as starting points, XXXtentacion is jarringly raw on “17,” which emphasizes spare folk-minded indie rock over hip-hop. Lil Uzi Vert and a Generation of Rap Stars Looking Beyond Hip-Hop 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Santos, who is Dominican American, grew up listening to Latin music and hip-hop in the Bronx. For Romeo Santos at the Patriot Center, it’s ladies first, as always

But it did something even better: Offer a critique of white suburbanites who co-opt hip-hop culture while simultaneously becoming a nerd anthem. The Internet Should Have Killed Weird Al. It Only Made Him Stronger 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday evening, that program allowed nine dancers to perform a fusion of street dance, ballroom and hip-hop in the lobby of the Guggenheim Museum, as part of the Works and Process bubble residencies. Live Performing Arts Are Returning to N.Y.C., but Not All at Once 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Now, more than four decades after hip-hop began, it is a minter of stars, a driver of style, a billion-dollar business. The Year in Yesteryear: Standout Music Books and Boxed Sets 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Peace Poets, a spoken-word hip-hop group, and the Bread and Puppet Theater will be on stage, and there will be a class on Ethiopian music, and one for those interested in extending their voice range. Spiritual Healing and Arts Festival in the Berkshires 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Their venture, “Quest Loves Food Curated by Graham Elliott,” will provide food and a Questlove DJ set for events, parties and festivals, something the Chicago Tribune called “hip-hop catering.” Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z

I see the real hip-hop heads sprinkled in here. Music Review: Nicki Minaj Backs Out of Summer Jam 2012-06-04T16:56:30Z

The artist emerges as a hip-hop Hieronymus Bosch. Identity transformed in the Fowler's 'Disguise: Masks and Global African Art' 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

The concept of realness underpins hip-hop; the fearless, whipsmart talent of Angel Haze brings you face-to-face with the resonant reality of it. Angel Haze: Reservation – review 2012-07-12T20:30:02Z

Children’s programs begin at 12 p.m., with music and dancing and for adults free salsa, zumba and hip-hop at 6 p.m. Spare Times for June 8-14 2012-06-07T23:04:37Z

It is also a Drake album made up almost wholly of the parts of Drake albums that send hip-hop purists into conniptions. Drake Rebuilt Hip-Hop in His Image. Now He Wants You to Dance. 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

Though each are now wealthy hip-hop moguls, Jay Z and Russell Simmons grew up as young men of color on the streets of New York, an experience deeply reflected in their art and work. Jay Z, Russell Simmons talk police reforms with New York governor 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Before playing Don't Believe the Hype, Chuck spits at previous hip-hop at festivals. Public Enemy at Glastonbury - review 2013-06-30T00:18:52Z

Before joining the nonprofit world, he was a member of MAD Krew, a mid-1990s graffiti and hip-hop collective started by friends at Franklin High School. COVID and Black Lives Matter brought an explosion of street art to Seattle. But graffiti was already having a moment 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z

Music, a stream of hip-hop and pop songs, insulated the space with a steady, sensuous pulse. Dance Review: ‘La Substance, but in English’ Tweaks Consumerism 2014-01-13T23:29:50Z

Topics: , , Odd Future, Mountain Dew, , hip-hop, Oh, it’s weird, all right. The most racist commercial of all time? 2013-05-01T16:10:00Z

Here, photography is sampling its own past in much the same way that hip-hop did in the early 1980s, but without its heated debate about ownership and royalties. Why you are the future of photography 2011-07-13T17:25:51Z

Is children's programming compatible with beer-drinking crowds of punk rock and hip-hop fans? Capitol Hill is changing — and so will Block Party 2012-05-30T03:53:07Z

True to the laws of hip-hop as Harris defines them, “Nuttin’ but a Word” rests heavily on the individuality of its dancers. Review: Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop Dance Mixtape 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

The Burien bar slayer has taken the Seattle hip-hop scene by storm in recent years and came out swinging this summer on his most variegated project to date. 16 of the best Seattle albums from 2021 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

This was especially true of the mini-line of the hip-hop producer and bon vivant Pharrell Williams, the primary pattern of which was a mottled green and black combo. Critical Shopper: Moncler, Where the Parkas Need a Bouncer 2010-10-27T17:51:00Z

As for what drives the hip-hop star's perfectionism, it's never entirely clear. Kanye West tells Annie Leibovitz: check out my wedding snap 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Already the country-rap crossover — collaborations with rappers, hip-hop slang sneaking into songs — has a partner in the recent spate of country songs produced with flourishes of electronic music. Country Music Opens Its Ears 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

The N.F.L. knew it had to fix its relationship with hip-hop, and partnered with Jay-Z and Roc Nation to produce the Super Bowl halftime show. How Hip-Hop Inched Its Way to the Super Bowl Halftime Stage 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

In light of Azalea’s ascent, Houston hero Scarface predicted that hip-hop would follow the arc of rock-and-roll, eventually transforming into a musical idiom performed predominantly by and for whites. White echoes: Rap, race and Iggy Azalea 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Public Enemy as a hip-hop group. Public Enemy Still Fighting, Still Fresh 2012-07-27T13:22:16Z

With its producer, Prince Paul, the group developed an idiosyncratic and freewheeling style of sampling that brought new textures to hip-hop. De La Soul’s David Jolicoeur, Who Rapped as Trugoy the Dove, Dies at 54 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z

The album concludes with another Argentine connection: “Agárrate,” which starts as a mournful tango-bolero — complete with a bandoneon, the definitive tango accordion — before suddenly shifting gears into aggressive hip-hop. A Newcomer to Watch at the Latin Grammys: Nathy Peluso 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Elsewhere in the festival: rock, hip-hop, electronic music and minimalism from Faust, Shabazz Palaces, Deerhunter, Destroyer, the Necks, Kaki King, and the D.J.-producers Adrian Sherwood and Lotic, among others. A Dutch Festival Returns 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

The program, with a script by Craig Shemin, a former writer for the Jim Henson Company, will be accompanied by dance performances, including ballroom and, yes, hip-hop. Spare Times for Children Listings for March 4-10 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

On Friday, nothing,nowhere. will release “Reaper,” an outstanding album that synthesizes the second-wave emo of the early to mid-2000s with the rattling hip-hop low end of the last few years. nothing,nowhere. Blends Hip-Hop and Emo to Make Tomorrow’s Pop 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

And they had invented a new genre, but no one seemed terribly keen on calling it minimalist lover's hip-hop; much to Massive Attack's chagrin, the snappier trip-hop became the accepted term. Massive Attack: Blue Lines (remastered) – review 2012-12-06T15:29:01Z

But Harlow — a commercially successful white rapper, still a rare thing in hip-hop — is craving centrist hip-hop acclaim, not a connoisseur’s classic. Jack Harlow Knows What He Wants. And Where He Stands. 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Many of his lyrics feature standard hip-hop tropes, like allusions to sports and pop culture. How BMG Secretly Signed a Rapper Dropped for Antisemitic Lyrics 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

Yes, Kool Herc and lots of other pioneers set this thing off that we understand to be hip-hop, but understand hip-hop is way older than 50 years old. Biz Markie was the "essence of hip-hop": Hailing the rapper who made us laugh as hip-hop turns 50 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z

“A classical piece may be traditional, but it doesn’t mean it is superior to a pop piece or a hip-hop track.” Honky-Tonk Tchaikovsky? ‘Fantasia’ Game Offers a Way 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

Q: Do you think the artists topping music charts are being influenced by the new wave of British hip-hop? Rapper Tinie Tempah's big ambition for U.S. "Disc-Overy" 2011-12-02T21:17:09Z

The Room Where It Happens” from “Hamilton” This is not the last of “Hamilton” on this list, but how to narrow down Lin-Manuel Miranda’s abundantly brilliant hip-hop score? The Top Ten Showstoppers of 2015 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

The future “Hamilton” sensation was part of an improv comedy and hip-hop group whose work caught filmmaker Andrew Fried’s eye in the mid-2000s. New this week: Apollo benefit, docs on Bruce Lee, spelling 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

He jumped up and down as he described their upcoming tour, and he compared his team to "the hip-hop version of Kiss and the Rolling Stones wrapped up in one." Bad Boy concert rocks hard with Puff Daddy, Jay Z, Lil Kim 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

Additionally, he has directed several music videos making him as much a fixture of the hip-hop community as the rappers themselves. LA Originals: a Netflix documentary about an influential hip-hop duo 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Before his speech was cut off, he alluded to the gulf between the Grammy establishment and hip-hop culture. Grammys 2019: Cardi B, Lady Gaga and Kacey Musgraves Make It a Year for Women 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

One tent featured acts bordering on hip-hop, balancing the shiny electronic sounds of much of the festival with some corrective sludge and murk. Music Review: Hard-Driving Star D.J.?s Serve Up the Thumps 2010-09-06T22:48:00Z

Sunday was an opportunity for them to hear some new music for free — and Natalie, who favors a band called Mindless Behavior, said she planned to listen to the hip-hop performers. A crowded free day of music at Seattle Symphony 2011-09-19T18:14:21Z

The dancers make visible the sound, a seamless selection of jazz, house, hip-hop and R&B; the musicians get up and dance. LaTasha Barnes: Let the Circle of Influence Be Unbroken 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

But that’s an outmoded value in contemporary hip-hop, which skews heavily toward the triumphant, the fantastical and the unattainable — Drake and 2 Chainz talking about stealing girlfriends, Rick Ross boasting about wealth and so on. Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change 2012-10-07T04:49:05Z

On Thursday he traded his urban hip-hop style for a dark suit, better to hide the rubble dust and handprints as he crowd-surfed to open his rally. AP Interview: Wyclef Jean's vision for Haiti 2010-08-06T11:07:00Z

His personal journey with hip-hop continued through college, into one of his earliest jobs: When he wrote jingles at an advertising firm, he became known for a special skill set. Ranveer Singh Champions Indian Rap. ‘Gully Boy’ Provided a Spark. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

It's been a meeting of the tribes: punk kids checking out Odd Future, hip-hop kids getting their first taste of the moshpit. Trash Talk fly the black flag for Californian DIY punk 2012-10-12T14:00:00Z

Such dueling sets of political lyrics represent a kind of Colonial counterpart to the hip-hop battles of “Hamilton.” ‘Hamilton’ Is Known For Its Music, but What Did Alexander Hamilton Listen To? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

But if its influence is pervasive, hip-hop has still produced only a handful of good, stand-alone shows. Blaze | Theatre review 2010-03-17T21:30:00Z

We saw this recently in Staffordshire when Christopher Jones was cleared of racial abuse after claiming to be a hip-hop fan, where the word is part of the lingua franca. Why was Reginald D Hunter ever booked for the PFA awards dinner? 2013-04-30T17:26:49Z

In this record, Bame, Jota and DJ Antioch pick up on old school hip-hop sounds, throwing inspired rhymes about cosmos, love and eternity. January's best new music from across the MAP 2011-01-15T12:41:00Z

Photograph: Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press After the election, however, hip-hop receded into the background. How hip-hop fell out of love with Obama 2012-08-23T19:00:01Z

The pioneering rap impresario Russell Simmons is aiming to bring a hip-hop revue to Broadway late next year. Russell Simmons Plans Musical on Early Days of Hip-Hop 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

But facing the prospect of new hip-hop, many chose to skip the opening act; apparently they prefer the throwback. Jack White Links Hip-Hop and Blues at Madison Square Garden 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

Q: Does the next wave of hip-hop artists share those standards? Pusha T pushes beyond Clipse 2014-02-06T15:41:00Z

The rest of the mix spans African highlife music, American twee pop and rock & roll, Atlanta hip-hop and twisted electronic music of various origins, among other styles. Download this: "Go Easy With Me," Cairo mixtape #03 2011-05-31T16:22:06Z

It doesn't sound like I'm trying to do whatever it is that one would think hip-hop is doing now. LL Cool J celebrates Grammy-hosting gig at dinner 2013-02-10T11:31:07Z

Last year's winner was hip-hop star Speech Debelle with her debut release "Speech Therapy." The XX win UK Mercury music prize for debut album 2010-09-08T08:18:00Z

Musically, Kid Sister draws on Chicago's musical roots, mixing hip-hop with thudding house beats and big, old-fashioned R&B hooks. Sister Act 2010-04-27T07:13:00Z

It's interesting that there isn't a similar ethnic scrutiny of hip-hop or country. Ask the indie professor: Why are there so many white indie bands? 2011-01-04T13:10:38Z

“Some are subtle, like someone who starts practicing yoga and wearing an Indian third eye. Then there are all the white people who’ve taken on aspects of hip-hop culture — the clothing, the speech.” Jess Row’s ‘Your Face in Mine’ Explores ‘Racial Reassignment’ 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Jamar Roberts, tall and powerfully built, strode like Moses in white sweatpants among dancers shuddering their way through an unceasing sequence of hip-hop moves. Our dream selves, and getting through grief, with Alvin Ailey dancers 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

Real simple is I've always thought that that hip-hop and rap music was always high elevation to me. As hip-hop turns 50, Chuck D praises its power as "a worldwide cultural experience and religion" 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

They were officially anointed Diamond District in 2006, and their 2009 debut, “In the Ruff ,” is arguably the local underground hip-hop scene’s crown jewel. Oddisee returns to his U Street corridor origins, playing the 9:30 Club for the first time 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a concept of critical importance to Richardson’s generation, which is adjusting to a new kind of modal playing now that funk and hip-hop sampling have redefined jazz. In 1960, John Coltrane went on one last tour with Miles Davis. European audiences weren’t prepared for what he would play.

On one recent trip, I spied a shirt from Downstairs Records, a go-to for hip-hop in the 1980s and ’90s, which was too small for me. Shirts for Lifelong New Yorkers and Those Who Would Like to Pass for One 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

During the murder trial, which lasted a little more than two weeks, witnesses described a killing that reverberated far beyond the world of West Coast hip-hop, prompting a huge outpouring of grief across the nation. The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of Eric R. Holder Jr., who is accused of killing Nipsey Hussle. 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

I played tennis at a black tennis club, I lived for hip-hop, and I devoured Richard Wright’s Native Son and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, two books that take a deep look at blackness. Donald Glover: how the star of Atlanta proved that I too could be cool 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Hot on its heels a few months later was Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby,” which sampled “Under Pressure” by Queen and David Bowie and became the first hip-hop single to top the Billboard Hot 100. How Do You Capture Four Decades of Hip-Hop? Very Broadly. 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

The arts center will announce additional events — including comedy, jazz and hip-hop concerts — in the fall. Kennedy Center plans return to large-scale performances in January 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Surrounded by booming electronic dance beats and a corps of hip-hop dancers, Mr. Roumain is game, likable and inoffensive to the core. Music Review: Daniel Bernard Roumain at Harvey Theater - Review 2011-10-14T23:11:29Z

Set in 1992, the play centers on a rock club owner who is fighting to keep his club alive as musical tastes change, and his daughter, who is dating a rising hip-hop star. Women's Theater Project to Present New Laura Eason Play 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Decades of hip-hop cross-pollination with R&B have softened many of the genre’s roughest edges, and its ever-widening fan base is increasingly content with new narratives. Retro Rap That Puts Women Down 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

But even as Chic’s records were being sampled on the burgeoning hip-hop scene, the backlash against disco turned “Good Times” into a last hurrah for the group. Nile Rodgers — defender of disco 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

About hip-hop, he writes, “It may be the quintessential American art form, the country’s greatest cultural contribution to the world.” ‘Major Labels’ Wraps Popular Music — All of It — in a Warm Embrace 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

He is, comparatively, pragmatic — attuned to his own limitations, mindful of the shifting pecking orders in hip-hop and fashion, interested in coexistence rather than conflict. Into the Wild With Kanye West 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

“More Life” is a pu pu platter of the world’s hip-hop and hip-hop adjacent sounds, all filtered through Drake — just as Drake is being filtered through these sounds. Man of the times: On “More Life,” Drake is dialed into the sounds and possibility of the digital age 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

It is rowdy, exaggerated, slightly comic fun: shock theater in the guise of a hip-hop video. Stitches, the Transgressive Rapper, Plays Amityville 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

In most hip-hop moves, she said, you bounce up on the beat. Urban Athlete: Hip-Hop Lessons at Broadway Dance Center 2012-08-10T05:00:16Z

The New York hip-hop crew, respected among underground–hip-hop heads, reunited at Coachella last year for the first time since its 2007 breakup; this is the second stop on a full-fledged reunion tour. Your week in Seattle music: Steely Dan, New Order, Lauryn Hill and more 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

Birmingham Rep is on the move, too, and will be performing across the city over the next two years; its production of the hip-hop graphic novel, The Rememberers, is at the AE Harris Factory. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-02-04T17:25:21Z

They toured relentlessly, while incorporating more of their influences, from hip-hop to classic rock, into their increasingly sophisticated recordings. Black Keys rise above panic, divorce, popularity 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

There’s hip-hop and rockabilly, puppets and cabaret, dancing and comedy and much more. With traditional venues shut, Berlin artists take to streets 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

I try to listen to a bit of everything — I love hip-hop, rock music and I’ve dabbled into classical. Jovan Adepo Gets Workout Tips From John Krasinski 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

He nailed the menace in “Pop the Trunk” and the indignation of “I Wish,” a nimble, sneering track about belonging in hip-hop despite naysayers. Music Review | Yelawolf: Alabama Rapper at Brooklyn Bowl, With ?Trunk Muzik? Mixtape 2010-03-09T22:31:00Z

There’s nothing transparent about Riff Raff, one of the most indelibly eccentric figures in contemporary hip-hop, engaged in either a grand act of performance art, or an equally grand act of outsider art. Music Review: Riff Raff at Santos Party House 2012-09-02T21:09:52Z

And while Jun believes there is a place for everyone in hip-hop, by saying it’s universal, “You’re erasing the culture that it comes from,” she said. A Hip-Hop Dance Crew’s Frabjous Reign in Las Vegas 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

I did a lot of hip-hop journalism and sports journalism, so I was used to interviewing people. "Survival Math" author Mitchell Jackson reckons with his "All-American" life 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

Most vividly, that meant several largely unvarnished performances by hip-hop stars, still a shock on the Grammys stage despite the genre’s role at the center of pop evolution for decades. The Grammys Discover Youth 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

The very first year of recorded hip-hop music, 1979, you have multiple songs that use the break from "Good Times." Hip-hop stays current by mining Internet memes 2011-08-16T19:17:00Z

In the same way that rap and hip-hop crossed over from inner-city to white suburban kids, skateboarding, which was primarily a white suburban thing, then became urban. Afro-Punk Festival Embraces the Big Time 2011-08-25T23:04:01Z

The show took the form of a hectic, multipart dance, with performers representing everything from factory workers to cheerleaders to hip-hop girls to a “Jah army.” New York Men’s Fashion Week: The Mixtape 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

There are Chinese gangs and malicious pit bull breeders, scheming hip-hop producers and, in his new book, a group of corrupt former soldiers with a history of torturing detainees at Abu Ghraib. Raised in South Central, Joe Ide Expands the Territory of L.A. Noir 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

This group makes a brew that draws upon hip-hop and funk, too. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Thus in choosing to tell a story of a Founding Father with the swagger and emotionality of hip-hop, Miranda conveys Hamilton’s significance on multiple levels. “Hamilton’s America” takes us into the rooms where it happened 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

His work has been sampled by hip-hop and electronic artists, including Daft Punk. George Duke, Crossover Musician With Frank Zappa, Dies at 67 2013-08-07T02:22:54Z

“Lin invited me to ‘In the Heights,’” he recalls, “and I went backstage, and he said, ‘Ron, I was reading the book, and hip-hop songs started rising off the page.’ On PBS, the Story of ‘Hamilton’ and Hamilton 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. West has had the most sui generis hip-hop career of the last decade. The Visionaries: Kanye West Talks About His Career and Album ‘Yeezus’ 2013-06-11T23:25:32Z

Theirs was a civil case, but its outcome fed real fears that justice might evade Megan Thee Stallion in the criminal case against the man who assaulted her with a gun, hip-hop artist Tory Lanez. Are some stars and celebrity cases simply too famous to ensure that justice will be served? 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z

I’m just like everybody else: I look at hip-hop award shows and I see them honoring people, and I’m not getting honored. “That’s the message, that black is bad and white is right”: Luther Campbell on racism, the police, bringing politics back to hip hop and how Al Gore and Bill Clinton ruined the music industry 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Davis, who died in 1991, was a rock star before there were rock stars, gangsta long before hip-hop. The Ensembles of Miles Davis Epitomized Cool 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

With his latest truffle extravaganza, what Jay-Z is in effect saying is that the world of decadent foodstuffs is not off limits – not to him, or to hip-hop culture. Jay-Z, truffles and the transformation of bling 2012-11-20T18:30:01Z

Emphasizing African-American contributions to circus arts, UniverSoul does its acts to hip-hop, R&B, soul and gospel. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

“They’re playing to a stereotype,” he added, like contemporary hip-hop artists who have college degrees and stable families but pretend to be disaffected gangsters onstage. Antiques: Black and Jewish Music, Kentucky Cabinets, Magician Posters 2012-12-06T22:01:49Z

Waln’s politically charged subject matter is fairly representative of a whole new generation of Native hip-hop performers. Fighting the power and speaking for the earth: The explosion of Native American hip-hop 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

There is a strain of violence and hopelessness in some of the more popular hip-hop emerging from the city this year. Lupe Fiasco a voice of reason amid the violence 2012-12-27T22:15:00Z

This is Trash Talk’s first release on Odd Future Records, the label founded by that divisive Los Angeles hip-hop crew. New Music: New Albums by Mountain Goats, Kurt Elling and Trash Talk 2012-10-09T01:10:07Z

A young hip-hop producer once asked Jam if he had 808 sounds stored on a computer, and Jam just showed him the actual hardware. Jam & Lewis Shaped Pop History. They’re Working on Its Future, Too. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

“We Can’t Stop” is a low-key burner produced by Mike Will Made It, whose work expertly straddles urgent, dark R&B; hip-hop gravity; and pop accessibility. Critic’s Notebook: The Diverging Musical Paths of Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus 2013-07-24T21:18:26Z

He gained cachet in hip-hop circles and became known as the "King of Bling" before going to federal prison in 2008 for lying to investigators looking into a multistate drug ring. NYC jeweler sues Courtney Love to get bling back 2010-11-23T00:59:00Z

It's very disappointing, but utterly in keeping with the postcolonial agenda of the Anglo-American media, that the recent success of the Belfast rap/hip-hop duo Kneecap goes completely unmentioned in this article, despite huge publicity. Hip-Hop With an Irish Lilt 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

Perhaps their most common current media depiction would be the women used decoratively in certain hip-hop videos. Groupies, From Sex Symbols to Style Icons 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

She’s no fan of hip-hop, she added, but said, “I’m willing to learn.” ‘Hamilton’ Heads to Broadway in a Hip-Hop Retelling 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

Even aged hip-hop cliches such as "Throw ya hands in the air" sound relatively sprightly in his zodiac of sound. Cee Lo Green ? review 2011-03-28T20:29:01Z

Most of the ideas in Mr. Roney’s compositions began at the center of jazz’s mainstream language and cut a path outward, often by way of funk, hip-hop, pop, Brazilian or Afro-Caribbean music. Wallace Roney, Jazz Trumpet Virtuoso, Is Dead at 59 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

Compared with American hip-hop, grime is breakneck, but it’s far from dance music. Review: Skepta Returns to the Rugged at Palisades and MoMA PS1 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

MC Killer Mike put his stamp on the festival when he got choked up talking about hip-hop as a lifeline deeper than any political party or religious institution. Pitchfork Festival 2013: It's a wrap 2013-07-18T17:01:00Z

It's hard to imagine a more appropriate launch-off gig for the group, and for their uncategorizable, globe-trotting mix of hip-hop, noise and experimental new music. Future Brown makes art music for dirty dancing 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Q: What is your opinion of the representation of women in hip-hop? Nneka Egbuna on opening for Nas, and what fuels her music 2010-05-20T20:17:00Z

Early on, hip-hop music was really positive, most of it. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z

Boosie might not be at their caliber yet, but for this moment in American life and hip-hop, he's as visceral a voice as we're going to get. 'Touch Down 2 Cause Hell' by Boosie Badazz goes deep 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

Across the country, with electronic music and hip-hop alike, “The majority of the issues we run into are people who are inebriated or borderline overdosing,” Mr. Yorio said. Rap Concert Shooting Renews a Racially Charged Debate on Safety 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

His main problem with hip-hop is the volume at which other drivers play it. Iranians pump up the volume for banned tunes 2013-05-07T13:46:41Z

And he goes, ‘Yeah, so just more hip-hop.’ yMusic to Bring Its Versatility to Ecstatic Music Festival 2012-02-03T17:45:10Z

“The internet drastically shaped the way we engage in the hip-hop community in the physical sense,” Macklemore said the night before the show. Macklemore’s youth program seeks permanent home in gentrifying Seattle for the next generation 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

As a fan of hip-hop, I do appreciate having someone inside the hip-hop community who is willing to address the exclusionary homophobic or misogynistic lyrics and behavior. Talib Kweli on the Burdens of Being Hip-Hop’s Outspoken Conscience 2013-06-19T16:29:21Z

At the rehearsal, Heyward, who made his Broadway debut in “The Lion King” in February, attacked the hip-hop choreography with confidence but admitted to being anxious about the stripping. Velcro or Snaps? The ABC’s of Stripping for a Cause 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

Village Theatre will start its 2014-15 season with the first local staging of “In the Heights,” a hit Broadway musical with a hip-hop/salsa beat set in the Latino enclave of Manhattan’s Washington Heights. Village plans ‘In the Heights,’ ‘Mary Poppins’ for 2014-15 2014-03-05T02:16:40Z

Three of Seattle's most penetrating hip-hop acts share one bill. What's up with nightlife this week 2012-11-29T21:34:16Z

The only other collaboration on the album better represents the current moment: “Neon Guts” is produced by and features Pharrell Williams, perhaps the most rigorous presence in hip-hop of the 2000s. Lil Uzi Vert and a Generation of Rap Stars Looking Beyond Hip-Hop 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Here several of those songwriters, along with a few other theater and hip-hop notables, share their memories and appreciations of MacDermot. ‘The Cool Guy’: Pop and Theater Stars Celebrate the Composer of ‘Hair’ 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

In the early stages of his campaign, then-senator Obama was making tentative overtures to hip-hop, noting in particular his appreciation of, and interest in, rap music. How hip-hop fell out of love with Obama 2012-08-23T19:00:01Z

Debuting Friday on Hulu is this documentary about the improvising hip-hop group that those and others founded before Miranda created “In the Heights” or “Hamilton.” New this week: ‘Psych,’ The Chicks album, ’30 Rock’ reunited 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

Included above is the best track on the album, "Take 1," produced by New Jersey master Clams Casino, master of the thousand-melted-candles hip-hop style. Seattle producers with that cloudy hip-hop style 2011-08-18T20:21:37Z

And for years hip-hop — New York hip-hop in particular — had plenty of those on offer. Old Guard Returns for Hot 97 Summer Jam 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

In this way, it’s also easy to read the Oasis story as one of nostalgic retrenchment, rock’s last moment of dominance before the popular rise of dance music, hip-hop, and genre collisions of all sorts. Oasis and the Fading Dream of the Nineties 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Some, like nothing,nowhere., asked for collaborations, bringing Mr. Carrabba into a modern sound that built a hip-hop hybrid on his emo foundation. Dashboard Confessional, Emo’s King of Pain, Rises Again 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

DJ Megatron worked for hip-hop and R&B stations in New York, Boston and Philadelphia before becoming a figure on BET's "106 & Park" music series. TV, radio personality DJ Megatron killed in NYC 2011-03-27T19:07:08Z

Weber was so angry that she created her own hip-hop company, Strictly Funk. A Genre-Spanning Choreographer Who Says Yes to the Unknown 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Punters can rotate the heck out of a wheel and make it land on urban-flavoured categories including hip-hop, soul, jazz, reggae, disco, Motown and house. Clubs picks of the week 2010-05-07T23:12:00Z

The lead single "Climax," marries R&B and electronic music, and sets the tone for 14 tracks of electronic, soul and hip-hop sounds. Usher feels "near a rebirth" on new album 2012-06-01T12:24:07Z

They're not entirely alone in modern hip-hop for that effort, of course. Wu-Tang Clan looks to past, future in 'A Better Tomorrow,' more works 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Instead the battle lines have been redrawn in novel ways, and message-driven hip-hop has begun to find a home again, not just on the fringes, but near the center of the genre. Critic?s Notebook: Social-Minded Hip-Hop Makes a Comeback 2011-12-21T19:58:04Z

The unrelenting weirdness of the Los Angeles hip-hop underground in the mid-1990s gave birth to an almost unending variety of techniques and characters. Boxing Up the Past: The Year in 16 Pop, Rap, Soul and Jazz Sets 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

As many predicted, Taraji P. Henson was among the nominees for lead actress in a drama series for her scene-stealing turn as hip-hop matriarch Cookie Lyon in Fox's smash hit, "Empire." Emmys 2015: A mix of old, new and history-making in drama leads 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

There are light flickers of hip-hop and new jack swing, as on “Seventeen” and “You Better Run.” Blackpink and the Limits of K-Pop Maximalism 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

Where the Central District was ground zero for Seattle rap music, Jefferson Park became the nexus for the other elements of hip-hop culture — DJing, breakdancing and graffiti writing, says Ybarra. The legacy of Soul One, a steward of Seattle hip-hop culture, lives on 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

Officials announced Monday that the Grammy-winning hip-hop group will be the subject of a mural in the city. Philly mural will show brotherly love to The Roots 2011-11-07T17:46:07Z

The rise of skate culture continued into the 1970s and 1980s, becoming an incubator for hip-hop — something documented in the 2019 documentary "United Skates." How to get around, get exercise, get cool this summer: Roller skating 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

He wasn’t allowed to listen to hip-hop in his house growing up, but the exposure to gospel music helped shape his musical vision. D.C. rapper Chaz French takes a step forward in maturity on ‘True Colors’ 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

But you won’t hear just hip-hop in “Hamilton”; there’s also pure Broadway and even some sly nods to musicals past. Review | ‘Hamilton’ opens in Washington, and it’s a worthy successor to Broadway  2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

But I refer to that era as the golden age of hip-hop. Joey Bada$$ Wants to Bring Back the Golden Age of Hip-Hop 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

And the influence of hip-hop is discernible in footwork and bounce, but most of all in attitude. A New Kind of Native American Dance Troupe 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

A car moved into the frame playing hip-hop on the radio, and moved on. Webcams in Ferguson offer noncurated views distinct from TV news 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

But, in an effort to accomplish the same effect, the translators inserted several quotations from German hip-hop songs into the German score. Six Lyrics That Show Why ‘Hamilton’ Is Tough to Translate 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

I spoke to Chilean hip-hop artist Ana Tijoux earlier this week about her upcoming show there. Datebook: Artsy video games, Herzog's pix, Kara Walker and the Broad 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

You can easily imagine the beat being sampled as the undercarriage for a hip-hop hit. New band of the day - Sir Sly (No 1,434) 2013-01-18T15:25:35Z

Electronic and hip-hop shows benefit from only the deftest live drummers. Concert review: SBTRKT at Neptune Theatre 10/26 2011-10-27T19:33:38Z

This book beckons young readers and music lovers alike with an homage to the forefathers of hip-hop that also assures the feminine voice is never dismissed from the cypher. Review | Angie Thomas follows up ‘The Hate U Give’ with the story of an aspiring hip-hop star 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

In 2016, Jay Z is less an essential figure in contemporary hip-hop than a living repository of the possibilities a life in the genre can afford. The Playlist: Jay Z Responds to Police Shootings With ‘Spiritual’ 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

It's the equivalent of putting "All your base are belong to us" or "Keyboard Cat" lyrics in your hip-hop track. Hip-hop stays current by mining Internet memes 2011-08-16T19:17:00Z

A different spin on hip-hop sampling by Dean — music from scratch, lyrics from other songs. Download this: "They Got the $" by Renton's Michael Dean 2011-07-11T16:12:06Z

But actually there was only one Public Enemy – just as there is only one Rolling Stones – and besides, hip-hop in the main has always been more about razing than raising consciousness. Hip-hop on trial, but is the accusation false? 2012-06-27T15:02:00Z

His fans included members of the rock and hip-hop generation, and his influence was so great that even some leading Pakistani and Indian classical vocalists took up ghazal singing. Mehdi Hassan, Ghazal’s ‘Voice of God,’ Dies at 84 2012-06-14T13:54:06Z

What all those acts have in common is that they don’t play rock: They’re hip-hop, pop and country stars. The classic-rock generation is getting ready to retire. Who will fill their shoes? 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z

"One of the things that surprised me I think is the revelation that writing poetry, because it's such a close cousin to hip-hop, it's considered cool," Jacobs said. Chicago doc filmmakers land on Oprah network 2011-02-04T15:53:00Z

The most effusive response to his sumptuous new Satin Panthers EP came from one of his all-time heroes, hip-hop producer Just Blaze. Hudson Mohawke: beats, rhymes and lasers 2011-08-12T23:11:01Z

Our style and, being in New York in the 90s, hip-hop ... Kids from Larry Clark's Kids: 'We were like the United Nations of skateboarding' 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

But it was also a good time, a creative seedbed; the streets thrumming to the crosstown traffic of hip-hop and punk-rock. Jim Jarmusch: ‘I’m for the survival of beauty. I’m for the mystery of life’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z

What it means to be a hip-hop elder statesman, meanwhile, is still open to review. In Jazz, Listen to the Timeless Elders 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

The underlying story of "Dirty South" is Westhoff's discussion of how maligned southern hip-hop is by coastal elites, both critics and other rap artists. Book review: "Dirty South" by Ben Westhoff 2011-05-09T21:54:19Z

On “Dawn FM,” they land squarely in the window between 1982 and 1984, when New York’s emergent hip-hop production was coalescing into the electro that was streaking its way into pop. The Endless Pop Shimmers of the Weeknd 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

Woman’s Day said that the hip-hop artist visited a Melbourne hospital for an emergency MRI. Kayne West Rushed to Hospital in Australia 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

“For someone who cut her teeth on hip-hop,” she recently told me, “there’s a lot of daylight between a basement studio and an orchestra hall.” Dessa's "Sound the Bells": Indie hip-hop collides with an explosive orchestral score 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

Her dad is Billy Ray Cyrus, her godmother is Dolly Parton, and she grew up in the era when kids listen to hip-hop. 8 Life Lessons We Learned from Listening to the New Miley Cyrus Album 2013-10-01T19:51:27Z

More than just incorporating movies, hip-hop has matched them with its own epic narratives. It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z

Over more than 30 studio albums, Costello has regularly tested himself against new genres and new collaborators: classical, country, R&B, hip-hop, jazz. Elvis Costello & the Imposters Are Still Blasting Away 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Laird, one of Nashville’s most promising young songwriters, hasn’t written any of the most notable crossover records, but hip-hop is embedded into his songwriting process in a different way. Country Music Opens Its Ears 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

“Rappers tell stories all the time, so why can’t a hip-hop choreographer?” Review: Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop Dance Mixtape 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

Its first concert series, Soundtrack of America, will celebrate not the European classical sphere but the heritage of African-American music across a broad historical and stylistic spectrum, from spirituals to hip-hop. The Shed Opens With a Purpose. And a Party. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

“A much better strategy — and a much bigger hip-hop move — would have been for everybody to go to the Grammys and make our case in that space where the world was watching.” The Boycott Before: Rap and Resentment at the 1989 Grammys 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

That goes for some of his peers, too: Not long after receiving a congratulatory embrace backstage from the hip-hop godfather Puff Daddy, the night’s M.C., Jeremih’s ‘Late Nights’ Receives Less Fanfare Than He’d Expected From Def Jam 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

One song, “She Needs Me,” praised a career woman–a rare creature in hip-hop. ArtsBeat: Bonnaroo: Kendrick Lamar and Rappers With Vocal Bite 2012-06-08T17:28:53Z

Even in an era of earnest bohemianism in hip-hop, P.M. Prince Be, Who Infused Rap With Mysticism, Dies at 46 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

Adam Yauch, one of the founders of the seminal hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, has died of cancer at the age of 47, according to the Web site of the band’s publicist. ArtsBeat: Yauch, Beastie Boys Rapper Known as ?MCA,? Dies 2012-05-04T18:28:16Z

Surprisingly, two of the five profiled live in England, far away from firsthand interaction with American hip-hop culture. Celebrating the Fast-Moving, Bug-Eyed, Wily World of Hip-Hop Mixtape Covers 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

You can’t say that just what I do is hip-hop, because hip-hop is all energies. Kendrick Lamar, on a Year of Knowing What Matters 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Earlier this week, he spoke about kung fu heroes and the future of hip-hop. RZA Accompanies ‘The 36th Chamber of Shaolin’ 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

At the time of their founding, in 2013, homegrown hip-hop was becoming popular in Iceland. Feminist Rap Group in Iceland Looks Abroad After Making a Stir at Home 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

The familiar name and demonstrably serious musician Kanye West was the night’s big hip-hop winner, with four awards. Critic?s Notebook: At the 54th Grammy Awards, Everything Old Is Praised Again 2012-02-13T19:47:24Z

The Q brothers are now working on a hip-hop version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and plan to eventually create hip-hop translations of all of Shakespeare's works, including "A Mad-Summer Night's Dream." Hip-hop 'Othello' resonates behind bars 2013-08-30T13:57:05Z

His album All Hell is a haunting, often disjointed affair – songs like In The Beginning showcase Gibson's deep, almost Scott Walker-esque croon while owing much to hip-hop in the way the beat is constructed. Tim Jonze On Shuffle … modern country music 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z

On the other hand, it launched a debate that still rages 13 years later in the hip-hop community. Hip-hop goes for gay marriage 2013-04-02T15:27:00Z

In contrast, Tate’s own relationship to hip-hop has become more distant, as the music and the business around it have become inextricable. The Critic Who Convinced Me That Criticism Could Be Art 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Given that he’s been molded along the bulbous lines of Sly and Arnold, but with a hip-hop backbeat, this makes sense. | 'Fast Five': Vrooooom! Vrooooom! Flex ?Em if You Got ?Em 2011-04-28T18:24:33Z

Although it apparently didn't matter in this performance, which looked to me like an epileptic seizure set to a very strange hip-hop song sung by Perry Como's background singers. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Kate's suffering 2010-04-13T12:14:00Z

In May’s season 42 finale, Pumpkins was back, but this time, he was going as David S. Pimpkins for a hip-hop track with a few too many featured artists. Any Questions? Tom Hanks to Return to SNL as David Pumpkins 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

He inspired at least one generation of poets, playwrights and musicians, and his immersion in spoken word traditions and raw street language anticipated rap, hip-hop and slam poetry. Activist author Amiri Baraka dead at 79 2014-01-09T23:19:00Z

The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pink are among the headline performers this year, the festival’s 50th, but other genres such as hip-hop, classic rock, Latin and reggae are also represented. Places to Put Your Hands Together 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

The waning of the Obama/hip-hop love affair appears to be a two-way street, with Obama showing far less interest in the genre than he did in 2008. How hip-hop fell out of love with Obama 2012-08-23T19:00:01Z

The inventive, quirky rapper — who has a slew of guest appearances under her belt — learned her chops in church and with the Twin Cities hip-hop collective The Chalice. 14 Musical Acts To Watch in 2014 2013-11-13T10:45:09Z

“When that hip-hop beat drops, he’s gotten through all the technical elements and he can just show off his personality and that changes your view of what you think skating is.” Nathan Chen demonstrates new era of music in figure skating 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Teenagers tried out hip-hop, Thai boxing and hula hooping at public classes in a shopping center. A Dance Festival Making Movement Democratic 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z

In a conversation with The Associated Press, Jean compares those setbacks with the success he achieved with the Fugees, whose second album "The Score" remains one of the best-selling hip-hop records of all time. Wyclef Jean revisits Fugees, politics in 'Purpose' 2012-09-18T15:26:09Z

The Tumblr was entertainment, a map of modern hip-hop taste, and, for Yams, also a strategic gambit, “a setup.” ASAP Yams, Partner to Hip-Hop’s ASAP Rocky 2013-01-25T13:00:00Z

The host was not shy about admitting his inability to embrace hip-hop. 'Soul Train' concert to celebrate 40-year anniversary 2011-09-02T05:00:00Z

“I was someone who liked rock ’n’ roll, hip-hop, skateboarding — a broad range of things. Coming to Terms With the Legacy of Rick James 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Seattle hip-hop group Fresh Espresso kicked off the music on the main stage at 4 p.m. with an upbeat, precision set peppered with perky plinks and an optimistic message. Capitol Hill Block Party off to sunny, optimistic start in Seattle 2011-07-23T06:07:18Z

These days, it’s dubstep, the quaking reggae and hip-hop influenced dance music. The Week Ahead: Oct. 10 ? 16 2010-10-08T13:44:00Z

"It's unexpected in a lot of ways," said the eldest Angulo, a yoga teacher and hip-hop dancer. 'The Wolfpack's' isolated brothers relate to world through movies 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

And, like many hip-hop moguls, he has diverted some of his energies and funds towards activism, including producing. How Jay-Z’s new docuseries on Trayvon Martin exposes America 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

His blend of rock/pop/hip-hop—“schizophrenic pop” he jokes to TIME—is a new sound to reach such levels of success: an overtly Christian artist who sings, talks and raps about Jesus. Christian Music’s Moment: How TobyMac and Lecrae Conquered the Countdown 2012-09-17T14:00:32Z

The hip-hop mogul was reportedly on a set in Compton, Calif. on Thursday where there was a “vehicle versus pedestrian” collision, writes the Wrap, citing a statement from Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department. Suge Knight Involved in a Deadly Hit-and-Run: Reports 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

In addition to exposing the artist’s story to a larger audience, the film established a connection between Basquiat and hip-hop, by way of their friendship. Noticed: Jean-Michel Basquiat: An Artist the Hip-Hop World Can Believe In 2011-08-31T22:48:38Z

Who of the original “Seinfeld” cast had the most interest in hip-hop? Jerry Seinfeld on His New Friend, Wale, and 'The Album About Nothing' 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

“Pac was so insightful,” said Mr. Williams, who is also at work on “Martyr Loser King,” his own hip-hop musical. ‘Holler if Ya Hear Me’ Uses Songs by Tupac Shakur 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Also featuring an influential rock band’s long-awaited homecoming, a confounding techno producer and a legendary lyricist from the golden age of hip-hop. Your week in Seattle music: Tori Amos, Journey and more 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Last year, hip-hop officially surpassed rock to become America’s most popular genre, according to Nielsen. Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Signals Hip-Hop’s Growing Cultural Clout 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

There are lots of elements of modern hip-hop and bounce music but with a classic electro twist. Hudson Mohawke: beats, rhymes and lasers 2011-08-12T23:11:01Z

"I didn't have many Cambodian friends growing up," he said, "hip-hop was my way of being." Cambodian Music Festival salutes tradition, new artists paving the way 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

He draws here from his engaging new album, “In the Moment,” which often suggests a smart flesh-and-blood response to hip-hop samples of vintage jazz records. Jazz Listings for June 5-11 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" also reigns as the year's best-selling country set, while Sade's "Soldier of Love" is the biggest R&B/hip-hop album. Lady Antebellum leads album sales for 1st-half 2010 2010-07-10T01:32:00Z

Miley Cyrus's recent escapades into hip-hop culture have provoked outrage in circles that you might not expect to have been following the Hannah Montana star's pop career. Miley Cyrus has gone hip-hop. What's the problem? 2013-07-05T15:04:32Z

But “Planet Pit, ” released by Polo Grounds/J, is a hip-hop album only in so far as Pitbull raps on it. Music Review: Rootless Rapper Finds His Rhythm 2011-06-22T22:16:46Z

“Trap music, it brought hip-hop to the club — you could dance it, you could jump to it, you could party to it, and that’s what caught my attention.” Record labels said Latin trap was ‘going nowhere.’ Billions of YouTube views proved them wrong. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

It also sets the table for debates about what a post-Drake era in hip-hop might look and sound like. Drake Takes on All Comers 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z

The groundbreaking, biographical hip-hop show about the life of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton won 11 Tony Awards and made numerous tours. ‘Hamilton’ by original cast coming to a film screen near you 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Here are 10 clips, from chanson to hip-hop, that show the country at its sparkling best. Sounds of Belgium – day one: a history of Belgian pop in 10 songs 2012-07-02T12:02:00Z

Madonna said her daughter's style was "inspired by kids she sees in hip-hop and ballet classes, European influences, bands she listens to." Madonna and daughter collaborate on fashion line 2010-03-31T12:10:00Z

“I’m a big hip-hop guy—for me that’s where it all started.” An Unmasked Daft Punk and Quincy Jones are subjects of artist Xavier Veilhan’s riveting sculpture 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

She switched to music after exposure to hip-hop. Review: ‘Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.’ Melds a Rapper’s Music and Activism 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

As someone who is in both the classical and popular music spaces, I imagine this movement being sampled and turned into a hip-hop or house track. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

Their only mission is to create music as they go, sometimes mixing up punk rock with hip-hop. August's best new music from across the MAP 2011-08-17T17:09:56Z

As Skylar Grey, she’s still brooding, but her songs now also have the bluntness, electronic sizzle and rhythmic muscle of hip-hop; she also favors the higher, more cutting end of her vocal range. New Music: Skylar Grey, Okkyung Lee and Geoffrey Keezer on New Releases 2013-07-08T21:37:49Z

In hip-hop it has not been so shameless and easy. Run-DMC, Aerosmith and the Song That Changed Everything 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

“I started dancing in the clubs around ’88, ’89, and we never would’ve thought that hip-hop — that I — would still be here doing this,” she said. How Questlove Pulled Off the Grammys’ Crowd-Pleasing Hip-Hop Tribute 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

Pop and hip-hop fans seem significantly less concerned about dubstep’s creeping influence. Music: Korn and Dubstep, Not-So-Unlikely Marriage 2011-12-09T22:18:15Z

When people talk about the history of black culture in his home borough, conversation often turns to the block parties that led to the genesis of hip-hop in the 1970s. Food Lovers Aim to Give the Bronx Its Due 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

The rapper from Buffalo, New York is part of the hip-hop group Griselda and last month released his second studio album, “Burden of Proof.” Rapper Benny the Butcher shot in robbery attempt in Houston 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

“Ultimately, for the hip-hop community, I would love for us to win them all,” Lamar told the New York Times about the nine prizes he had been nominated for that year. Perspective | Kendrick Lamar deserves his Pulitzer. Rap is the most significant music of our time. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

There’s been a lot of triumphal, fanfaring rock and hip-hop around. Music: Pareles and Caramanica on Springsteen?s ?Wrecking Ball? 2012-03-02T21:32:35Z

Growing up in D.C., the U.S.-born Salvadoran American was inspired by go-go and, later, hip-hop. Review | In the galleries: Simulated stone and neon artworks reflect the transience of life 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

TLC put Atlanta hip-hop on the map, paving the way for a slew of acts, including Gucci Mane. Rock ’n’ Roll, Between the Covers 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Her materials incorporate paint and video projection in equal measure, plus scavenged art gallery announcements, orchestrated hip-hop sound, reflective silver Mylar and a PowerPoint presentation. 'UH-OH: Frances Stark, 1991-2015' at Hammer Museum is an enthralling midcareer survey 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Dizraeli sees this growing fusion between hip-hop and folk as inevitable. Hip-hop and folk meet in a new wave of protest music 2012-11-06T15:45:00Z

"Tom and I both like suits and hip-hop music, and the similarities kind of end there," Ansari said. Aziz Ansari, smooth talker from 'Parks,' brings stand-up to Seattle 2012-06-20T21:54:05Z

Among them are Damon Albarn's hip-hop collective Gorillaz, who are due to play an ambitious series of shows at London's Roundhouse next week. From Rossi with Love, Status Quo 'escaping from Moscow' 2010-04-20T08:52:00Z

What I decided to do, I borrowed, the way hip-hop samples music from earlier; I tried to use funk grooves that they might use. ‘The Central Park Five,’ in song: composer Anthony Davis on his new opera 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

Punk and hip-hop are massive movements, historical musical things. Flux Pavilion aims to inject dubstep with 'emotionally epic' songs 2012-06-14T20:33:00Z

His songs were rooted in the attitude of hip-hop while helping underscore the genre’s sing-rap evolution. Post Malone and Pop’s Single Sound 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

From major-label deals to viral fame, these local hip-hop artists made a splash in and outside their hometown last year. 4 Seattle rappers who had big years in 2018 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

The throne from which he delivers his hip-hop swagger is a toilet. The social commentary behind PSY's 'Gangnam Style' 2012-09-19T10:01:04Z

In fact, its influence even extends to hip-hop. The best No 1 records: The Shadows – Apache 2012-05-31T20:52:00Z

The camaraderie, Veneziale says, is a result of an openness to each performer’s distinct hip-hop style. How chill can Broadway get? Lin-Manuel Miranda and company throw down some ‘Freestyle Love’ to find out. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

But considering that many hip-hop fans in 2021 weren’t even born when Big was killed in 1997, it’s a necessary element of the story. Perspective | How ‘Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell’ can show the way for how rappers are remembered 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

The most consequential white hip-hop act since Eminem, this Seattle duo became a pop sensation, hip-hop curio and sociocultural lightning rod in 2012 on the back of the quirky breakthrough “Thrift Shop.” Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Return to the Hip-Hop Fray 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Injections of hip-hop dance and music pop up here and there, which seem a bit a gratuitous. Occupy Sherwood Forest! 'Robin Hood' at SCT 2011-10-26T20:07:59Z

Since the crackle of dissent is rising out of urban spaces,it's hardly surprising that politically conscious, city-dwelling folksters are weaving their music with the strands of hip-hop. Hip-hop and folk meet in a new wave of protest music 2012-11-06T15:45:00Z

After Americana vets Old Crow Medicine Show hold grassy court July 18, America’s favorite hip-hop band The Roots returns to the zoo July 31. ZooTunes announces roots-rocking 2022 lineup coming to Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Its footprint is seen everywhere from hip-hop to the contemporary dance music explosion. Boxed Sets of CDs and DVDs for 2012; Critics’ Picks 2012-11-22T21:24:13Z

Ms. Jones refers to this as “me taking urban hip-hop and Justin Biebering it,” but it’s also practical because the names make the moves easier to teach. Twerking Their Way to a Sweaty Workout Nirvana 2014-03-12T23:27:10Z

It was just a vibe that I was trying to get at, a sound I was trying to mix with hip-hop to try to see how far I could expand it. The Visionaries: Kanye West Talks About His Career and Album ‘Yeezus’ 2013-06-11T23:25:32Z

His plea for life is a satire of Auto-Tuned bling-crazed hip-hop, which is followed by an equally funny parody of a traditional Ukrainian wedding. Review: ‘Ride the Cyclone,’ About Teenagers, and Angst, in Purgatory 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Also I don’t want to gloss over how integral hip-hop has been in the late-reality-TV era, thanks to the Mona Scott-Young “Love & Hip Hop” empire and its many imitators. Rap Disrupted Music First. Now It’s TV and Film. 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

And he is working on a full-length album that will stray from hip-hop. Alex Chapman: The D.I.Y. Hip-Hop Artist 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

But “Max Brown” is jazz that has imported and metabolized the sonorities and techniques of hip-hop. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

The Black Eyed Peas’ singer is taking legal action against fellow hip-hop star Pharrell Williams over his use of “i am OTHER” for a clothing company. Will.i.am Threatens To Sue Pharrell Over Use Of Phrase “I Am” 2013-06-27T21:38:00Z

Along the way she rose on the charts with  “I’ll Take You There” and “Respect Yourself” and pivoted between gospel, soul, folk, pop, R&B, rock and hip-hop. The Eagles, Al Pacino, Mavis Staples, James Taylor at a bittersweet Kennedy Center Honors 2016 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

Work, her debut single here, wittily recounted some of that journey in a hardcore hip-hop vocabulary. The Strypes, DJ Khaled, MØ: this week's new tracks 2013-07-05T12:00:00Z

They quickly seemed to have decided that what the song really required was a hip-hop makeover. Old music: Die Toten Hosen ? Hip Hop Bommi Bop 2012-02-09T09:23:05Z

Zbikowski grew up in South Jersey, which meant that she could travel to Philadelphia for dance classes; it was at a time, she said, that hip-hop was moving into studios. Revealing the Labor of Dance Through Constant Motion 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a notion that resonates with Residency teaching artist and hip-hop elder statesman Ecaj. Macklemore’s youth program seeks permanent home in gentrifying Seattle for the next generation 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Instead of being discouraged or paralyzed by the gap between ambition and output many creative twentysomethings encounter, she channels her self-doubt into haunting hip-hop soul with a voice worthy of a future Bond theme song. How Seinabo Sey Beat Self-Sabotage to Make One of 2015's Best Debuts 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement “It was a very important and very little-known fulcrum point for hip-hop,” Mr. Charnas said. ‘The Breaks,’ a TV Movie on VH1, Examines the Year Hip-Hop Found Its Flow 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

“Ireland never really took to the hip-hop music, it was just a select few,” Mr. Walsh said in a Skype interview. Hip-Hop With an Irish Lilt 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

A self-taught rapper, songwriter and producer, she makes infectious, inventive tunes that smash and grab from hip-hop, grime, rave and punk, stir things up with Jamaican beats, Indian rhythms, African drums. MIA: 'I'm here for the people' 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

“I’m trying to feel the vibe in the building. Really, my main motivation ultimately is, like Eric B. & Rakim said, move the crowd,” he added, referring to a song from that hip-hop duo. The Magic Formulas Behind the Set Lists at Afropunk Fest 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Members of the A$AP collective and fellow hip-hop stars aired their condolences via social media after news of Yam’s death surfaced on Sunday. A$AP Yams Dead at 26 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

The quality of an record’s origin story doesn’t always match the quality of the record, but the 13th studio album from the queen of hip-hop soul is an exception. The 7 Most Underrated Pop Albums of 2014 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Perry Porter This Tacoma emcee/painter quietly released one of the best local hip-hop albums of the year. Upstream 2018: From Miguel to Tacocat, here’s who you need to see and who you should get to know 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

They learn the physics of footwork, a dance style popular in Chicago, and the engineering that goes into hip-hop production. At a hip-hop chess tournament, fun wins with a checkmate 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

The set was a reminder that J5 were one of the greatest alternative hip-hop groups of their time — and are more than capable of reclaiming their crown. Coachella 2013: Recapping The Music Festival 2013-04-23T19:58:52Z

“All of my friends in New York were using them to see ‘Hamilton,’ ” Turner said, referring to the hit hip-hop musical. Helen Mirren among the guests to laud Julie Taymor at Shakespeare gala 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

In January, the 25-year-old landed five of her songs in Billboard’s top 10 in the R&B and hip-hop category, beating the record set by Beyoncé. Cardi B Wins New York Fashion Week 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

But by the mid-1990s, the logos began to fade in importance as the rappers themselves became global stars, and music videos codified and promoted hip-hop fashion as a stand-alone style. ‘Rap Tees’ Catalogs Two Decades of Hip-Hop Merchandising 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lasman describes “Vanderpump” music as “more aggressive” than a typical “Housewives” score; the sounds of an 808 drum machine are louder, the cymbals are deeper and there is more overt hip-hop influence. The Sound of ‘Housewives’ Everywhere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

Rhythms, dynamics, melodic contours, vocal inflections and other ideas from Latin music have repeatedly catalyzed mainstream musical evolution: in jazz, rock ’n’ roll, psychedelia, disco, electronic dance music and hip-hop. In 2022, Latin Pop Thrived on Innovation. Again. 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

"Talented, hilarious, villainous, immature, precocious, and viral — they are at the vanguard of modern hip-hop," Pitchfork writer Sean Fennessey wrote last year. Odd Future booking puts Pitchfork festival in an odd position 2011-07-12T07:00:00Z

“Younger people are gonna have different viewpoints because in some cases, having listened to hip-hop and everything else, the word has a different kind of meaning. It’s almost like this weirdly positive negative.” Is saying the N-word still the final frontier of taboo on television? 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Instead of flying around on wings, as in the books, the Snitch is held on the waist of a yellow-clad "Snitch Runner," a strange mix of rodeo clown, Harlem Globetrotter and hip-hop hype man. Harry Potter's Quidditch Sport Brought to Life with World Cup 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

And like I said, I'm older than hip-hop, but I am also praising its 50-year existence as somebody who's looked at it travel on a tricycle and making sure it don't drive into a ditch. As hip-hop turns 50, Chuck D praises its power as "a worldwide cultural experience and religion" 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

It’s important we know hip-hop is very diverse. 'Selma' Actor Common: Don't Speak Out "Just Because It's Popular" 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Rebeca Leon, a manager for J Balvin and Juanes, also pointed to artists who “spent a good amount of their youth in the United States, being exposed to American hip-hop and pop.” ‘Despacito’ Owned the Summer. What’s Next for Latin Pop? 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Consciously broken down and thoughtfully arranged, the hip-hop steps acquire a kind of lyricism. Companhia Urbana de Dança Reflects Brazil’s Complexities 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z

He was cruelly cast adrift by the British after Popstars and Survivor, but celebrated by the Yanks on America's Got Talent for his sub-Donald Trump hairstyle and biting approach to deconstructing hip-hop ballet routines. Why endure London Olympic hell when you can live the American dream? 2012-07-27T17:00:02Z

In these two recent conflicts, you see similar friction — between a character actor and a literalist, between people who understand hip-hop as high theater and those whose celebrity is premised on something far less varnished. Hip-Hop Rivalries Aren’t New. But the Battlefields Have Changed. 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. West allowed for a new hip-hop paradigm, less aggressive and more emotionally nuanced. Music Review | J. Cole: At S.O.B.?s, J. Cole Steps From Jay-Z?s Shadow 2010-03-31T22:28:00Z

Local artists, including a hip-hop singer, opened the event organized by MTV in cooperation with U.S. and Australian government aid agencies and the anti-slavery organization Walk Free. Jason Mraz tops Myanmar anti-trafficking concert 2012-12-16T17:55:08Z

It’s hardly just a problem in hip-hop; it’s our whole society. Hip-hop’s sexual coming-of-age 2012-08-02T14:35:00Z

The tracks on “Born to Die” drew on hip-hop, with grunted samples and hefty beats, but now, she said, “I’m not crazy about some of that production.” Lana Del Rey Still Stirs Things Up With ‘Ultraviolence’ 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Broadway musical numbers, hip-hop and Beatle-esque ballads all seem to belong together, because they are all things Lin loves. The birth of 'Hamilton,' told by the man who was in the room where it happened 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Anything snappy and catchy — pop, hip-hop, reggae, rock, funk, electronic dance music — is hers to toy with. On a Surprise Album, Santigold Returns with Blithe Pop and Big Ideas 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

One day in October, the dancer Kenneth Shirley got a message from Injury Reserve, a hip-hop group he had befriended in Phoenix, where he grew up and still lives. A New Kind of Native American Dance Troupe 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

The Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” was not the first commercially released hip-hop single, but it was the one that effectively birthed the genre as a commercial force. Big Bank Hank, an Early Star of Rap, Dies at 58 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

Penn slapped Daniels with a $10m defamation suit last September, after the creator of hip-hop royalty television show Empire spoke about how actor Terrence Howard received intense criticism for admitting he’d punched his ex-wife. Lee Daniels apologizes to Sean Penn for allegations he abused Madonna 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Hip-hop is now an integral part of any get-out-the-vote effort, and the dynamic between hip-hop and politics has changed drastically since “My President” was first released. Atlanta rappers are backing Stacey Abrams. And it all goes back to Young Jeezy. 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

The true barrier to entry is that there is an essence at the center of hip-hop that white women have an extraordinarily hard time exuding or even copying. White Female Rappers Challenging Hip-Hop?s Masculine Ideal 2011-12-23T14:30:39Z

Young Fathers is also one of the few hip-hop acts to win the prize, which was established in 1992. Young Fathers Win Britain's Mercury Prize 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Chief Keef serves as a reminder of what’s been whitewashed out of the hip-hop mainstream: a sense of the struggle bedeviling the communities that produce much of the music. Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change 2012-10-07T04:49:05Z

It's like the history of comedy parallels with the history of hip-hop when it comes to the fashion evolution. "Canceling is relative": Michael Che on his comedy boundaries & why he's not leaving "SNL" just yet 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z

Each of these acts tells a story about making hip-hop on the fringes of the mainstream in 2011, but the stories are not the same. Critic?s Notebook: Hip-Hop Universe, Expanding 2011-12-10T00:33:56Z

A member of the notorious Odd Future hip-hop collective, Ocean made waves earlier this year by acknowledging that some songs on the album were inspired by an unrequited love affair with another man. Grammy Awards: Frank Ocean, 5 other artists get 6 nominations 2012-12-06T04:05:00Z

Take Frank Ocean coming out – yes, he's an R&B singer – but he's part of a massive hip-hop collective, so that does make a difference. Gay rap, the unthinkable becomes reality 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z

Can the breakout star beat veteran hip-hop peers? Grammys 2015: Common's' 'Nobody's Smiling' deserves rap album honor 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

On record, Cold Duck Complex struggled to achieve the sound that reflected the warmth of classic hip-hop samples. Makaya McCraven Sees the Future of Jazz Through Layers of History 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

In tandem with breakout electronic stars, these hip-hop artists helped evolve our guitar-town reputation while, nationally, music’s mainstream also became less guitar-oriented. 15 artists who defined Seattle music in the 2010s 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

Appearing with hip-hop buddies Lupe Fiasco and Common, West gave a lesson in swagger, performing Run This Town, Good Life, Touch the Sky, and his new single, Power. Kanye West makes first live appearance since Taylor Swift incident 2010-06-10T08:57:00Z

As the hip-hop mainstream shouts and booms its way into the 21st century, Beastie Boys are happy temporal outsiders, partying in their never-ending 1980s. Critics? Choice: New Cds: The Droll, Buzzing Grandpas of Rap 2011-05-02T19:51:31Z

An evolving hybrid, kwaito has grown from copying American electro styles in the 1990s to become the heartbeat of urban South Africa, incorporating hip-hop and social commentary, and spawning its own dances, fashions and slang. Fifa's World Cup kick-off concert 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

Making music in the Bronx, Aventura and then Mr. Santos on his own have been well aware of hip-hop, R&B and Latin pop. Critic’s Notebook: New Music by Shakira, Juanes, Enrique Iglesias and Wisin 2014-03-27T20:50:23Z

Shabazz, we bring a distinct hip-hop mentality from left to Sub Pop, which has established itself wide and deep in r&r from that same field. Shabazz Palaces enters unconventional partnership with Sub Pop 2010-09-02T15:41:00Z

They were posed by Seattle hip-hop duo THEESatisfaction Wednesday night at The Stage, in a particularly fiery version of their song "Naturale." Art Basel 2012 recap: Millennial art, music everywhere 2012-12-10T22:04:23Z

It’s a good month to be a hip-hop fan with disposable income in Seattle. April 2019 is stacked with buzzworthy hip-hop tours coming to Seattle 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

His best chunk of material is a close read of hip-hop clichés. Hannibal Buress Evolves From Cult Star to Showman 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

PraCh Ly, a Long Beach native and elder statesman of Cambodian hip-hop, was among the first musicians to speak out about the trauma of the Khmer Rouge era. Cambodian Music Festival salutes tradition, new artists paving the way 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

The four-part documentary series "The Message" charts the rise of hip-hop from its humble Bronx beginnings to global domination. TV This Week June 1 -7: 'Enough Said' on HBO 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The relationship between hip-hop and its hybridizers is less jarring, but still relevant. Critic’s Notebook: D.J.’s Play Where Rap, Hip-Hop and Dance Meet 2012-09-12T21:59:31Z

He and Mr. Nguyen became close friends after discovering a shared interest in hip-hop music and graffiti art as students at the California Institute of the Arts. Is It an Art Collective or a Vietnamese Ad Agency? Yes and Yes 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Bringing up hip-hop reminds me that you rapped on one of your solo albums, back in the early 1980s, on the track “You Wastin’ My Tyme.” A Pioneering Black Composer Keeps Pushing 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

That may also explain why Fall Out Boy recently released a hip-hop version of its 2015 rock album, “American Beauty/American Psycho.” Pete Wentz Checks Out Art in Chelsea 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

Rik Simpson, a longtime band associate, produced the album with Stargate, the prolific Norwegian duo, and there are also flickers of hip-hop in its sound. Review: Coldplay’s New Album, ‘A Head Full of Dreams,’ Is Blissful and Bittersweet 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

She also had “a love affair” with hip-hop. ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ breakout star Awkwafina is here to steal scenes and change the way you see Asian American women 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

And some of what he’s saying is important, wisps of an origin story for hip-hop dance. Review: In ‘Funkedified,’ the Visceral Glory of Funk 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

He is part of the notorious hip-hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, which has been vilified in some quarters for the violent, homophobic lyrics by some of its members. Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange' 2012-07-13T16:35:00Z

Beyonce, also making her festival debut, will be the first woman to headline the main Pyramid Stage - three years after Jay-Z became the first hip-hop artist to top the bill. Glastonbury-goers await U2 debut 2011-06-24T10:55:42Z

Post Malone operates at the intersection of hip-hop, rock, soul, even a little country — on “Stoney,” he was making a bid for musical seriousness. Post Malone and Rae Sremmurd, Hip-Hop Impressionists Shaping the Stream 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

He has also begun to dip back into hip-hop and urban music, composing songs with Wiz Khalifa like “Work Hard, Play Hard” and “No Sleep.” Pop: Benny Blanco, Hit Maker for Rihanna and Maroon 5 2013-01-05T05:03:03Z

Conventional hip-hop fame doesn’t suit him, and neither does conventional hip-hop. Review: ASAP Rocky Returns to a Haze in ‘At.Long.Last.ASAP’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

In 2011, they were trying to prove that the process of making hip-hop stars was changing. Pop: J. Cole, Wale and Mac Miller Return With New Albums 2013-06-26T14:00:01Z

And there is also an ethic of exploration and invention that is open to infusions of jazz, pop and hip-hop. | 'Passione': Soaring From Poverty All the Way to Ecstasy 2011-06-21T22:19:30Z

"The biggest influence on the album was all the hip-hop and R&B I was listening to," Roddick says. Purity Ring bridges indie cool and mainstream pop 2013-08-29T13:19:00Z

He's known as the Godfather of Soul but James Brown is credited with inspiring rap, hip-hop, funk and RnB as well. James Brown biopic sings true 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

As a hip-hop artist, how do you feel about the idea of a top five only being a part of hip-hop culture. Talib Kweli on hip-hop, Rudy "Ghouliani" and how Kanye West can make amends for supporting Trump 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

The musical drama series, set in New York in 1977, chronicles the rise of hip-hop in the era of disco. Watch a Group of Kids Try to Become Music Legends in The Get Down 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

Outside the competition, Casey Affleck's documentary on Joaquin Phoenix and his transition from acclaimed actor to shambolic hip-hop wannabe -- whether a hoax or not -- captivated viewers and kept media attention high. Venice film fest fights its corner as crisis bites 2010-09-07T10:50:00Z

In the years since his arrest, Shmurda has become something akin to a folk hero in hip-hop; his release has been highly anticipated by fans and other artists. Bobby Shmurda to be eligible for release in February 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

Now he's re-introducing himself as an instrumental producer of airy hip-hop. Windblown future-soul from local rapper/producer Sax G 2011-11-22T21:16:05Z

Although white artists borrowed from African-American blues in the early days of rock, by the 1990s black music had moved on to spoken, beat-focused hip-hop, while white bands like Nirvana screeched with dissonant grunge rock. Bopping brilliant 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

“Maybe local television stations think it is too sensitive to run hip-hop shows now,” he added. China takes aim at hip-hop, saying 'low-taste content' must stop 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

Just as multifaceted, “On Sugarland” features a Greek chorus called the Rowdy and draws elements from Southern gothic, Afro-surrealism and hip-hop, producing sounds that prepare the audience for the otherworldly occurrences that eventually unfold. The Creators of ‘On Sugarland’ Build a Site of Mourning and Repair 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Most hip-hop fans have never known a world without Jay-Z, who turned 50 on Wednesday and has been famous since the first Clinton administration. Review | In Michael Eric Dyson’s new book, Jay-Z is the living embodiment of American ideals 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

The second big change has come from the US, where dance music is, for the first time, becoming a billion-dollar entertainment industry to rival rock and hip-hop. Disclosure: how the Lawrence brothers are rebooting dance culture 2013-05-18T05:00:00Z

What the band faces now is “a hell of a challenge,” said Travis O’Guin, the president and chief executive of Strange Music, a hip-hop label in Missouri. Crisis for Insane Clown Posse: Getting Saner 2013-12-08T22:39:59Z

He’s all about ’90s culture, ’90s hip-hop, as if he kind of was in a time machine and stayed there,” said Jerome. ‘When They See Us’ actors revisit the Central Park Five case 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

By 2017, when she moved to Los Angeles to work with the Lab, Lalau was already fairly well known as a dancer in the competitive hip-hop scene. Mothers of Reinvention: The Lab Pivots as Studios Close 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

“This is a big moment for hip-hop music and a big moment for the Pulitzers,” Dana Canedy, the prizes’ administrator, said then. A Year After Kendrick Lamar, Will the Music Pulitzer Embrace Pop? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

The influence of hip-hop was now so pervasive, it spawned a parade of mediocre rap-rock bands. 5 Bands the NME Lovingly, Relentlessly Championed 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Inside my mind's eye, me and my imaginary writer friends would bond over, and debate hip-hop and basketball. They arrested me for playing basketball: A personal argument in favor of defunding the police 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

When sampling got big in hip-hop production, every producer was trying to position themselves as the most original when it came to beats. ‘The Cool Guy’: Pop and Theater Stars Celebrate the Composer of ‘Hair’ 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Kanye West famously said that the album “is still the hip-hop equivalent to Stevie Wonder’s ‘Songs in the Key of Life.’ Perspective | 25 years later, Dr. Dre’s ‘The Chronic’ remains rap’s world-building masterpiece 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Bachata is not hip-hop or reggaetón, it’s a music that is about men’s softer, emotional side and yet is still a dance music.” Anthony Santos Has New Album and TV Project 2011-11-13T05:00:12Z

A group routine nicely combined salsa partnering with hip-hop poses. Dance Review: Crazy Legs and His Rock Steady Crew Teach Hip-Hop 2013-08-01T20:53:21Z

Signed to alternative hip-hop label Stone’s Throw, he aims to create his mellow beat explorations “in a state of bliss.” Your week in Seattle music: Brandi Carlile, Cold War Kids and more 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

While at Harvard, Britell joined a hip-hop band called the Witness Protection Program. From hedge fund manager to Oscar nominee: Meet Nicholas Britell, the composer of 'Moonlight' 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

"Rest in peace," the hip-hop website Global Gring said on its Twitter page. Rapper Big Paybacc shot dead at Los Angeles-area fast-food restaurant 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

“And that created a palette of music that inspired hip-hop producers generations later that were trying to find the coolest samples. It became a treasure trove for many of us.” The Enduring Appeal of Italian Composers’ Dramatic ‘Library Music’ 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

For a city that despite producing the occasional breakout star like Common or Twista, and, of course, Kanye West, has never had a strong hip-hop infrastructure, this is a startling turn of events. Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change 2012-10-07T04:49:05Z

“He loved hip-hop and could rap, but he wasn’t rapping. It was always me, but once I got shot, that’s when he jumped in the driver’s seat and put an album out.” Conway the Machine’s new album caps Griselda’s rise to prominence as one of rap’s essential crews 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Television and film, politics, fashion and more — hip-hop has reshaped them all. Pitbull Moves Beyond Hip-Hop and Into the Unknown on ‘Climate Change’ 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Since then he has become inescapable, appealing not only to Spanish-speaking listeners but to fans whose personal playlists may also be dotted with hip-hop, K-pop and everything else. Bad Bunny Anchors a Year of Explosive Growth for Latin Music 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

Recently, it seems hip-hop artists have grown more socially conscious than they were maybe 10 years ago. 'Selma' Actor Common: Don't Speak Out "Just Because It's Popular" 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

“The one black outlet can’t get an interview?” a journalist from Global Grind, a hip-hop news website, shouted at Ms. Watson as she sailed into the Henry R. Luce Auditorium at Brookfield Place. Mrs. Rogers’s Neighborhood 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Most of the song is a boast about his success, ambition, authenticity, leadership and greatness: “30 millions later, my future favors the hip-hop status of a legendary rhyme savior.” The Playlist: Kendrick Lamar Backs Up His Boasts 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

We convinced him there was a UK hip-hop scene. 'Catalyst bands': What do you mean, you've never heard of them? 2011-07-21T21:01:01Z

As Seattle hip-hop continues to heat up and reshape itself, Highway is an artist to watch. 15 of the best Seattle albums of 2021 (so far) 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

Race Horse Company from Finland will perform “Petit Mal,” a show combining acrobatics, hip-hop and martial arts, suffused with black humor. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 16-22 2013-08-15T22:37:20Z

Next door is the sub-genre Christian hip-hop, created for the purpose of expressing Christian beliefs and evangelism. WATCH: There’s a Christian renaissance in hip-hop happening now 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

He gained his first flashes of notoriety when he was affiliated with the gleefully profane hip-hop collective Odd Future, and attracted a massive cult following after releasing the 2011 mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra. Frank Ocean's Visual Album Endless Is the Year's Most Curious Work in Progress 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Against this backdrop, the detention appeared especially vindictive, part of a long history of the authorities using hip-hop lyrics to indict, profile, or otherwise harass artists. The Shameful Arrest of 21 Savage 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

That is, naturally, absurd, but it is a clear reflection of a somewhat unexpected emergent racial reality in hip-hop. White Rappers, Clear of a Black Planet 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

How does hip-hop yoga fit into the matrix? Confused by yoga class names such as hatha, hot, vinyasa or yin? Here’s how to find your flow. 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

In its sources and allusions, the concert took for granted the broad-spectrum musical erudition of current composers: hip-hop, medieval motets, Broadway, Impressionism, dubstep. Review: Julia Holter and the Spektral Quartet in the Ecstatic Music Festival 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Next up for Luhrmann is The Get Down, a television series based around the beginnings of hip-hop in 1970’s New York City. 'Moulin Rouge' Director Baz Luhrmann Now Has His Own Record Label 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z

The transformation also led a few hardcore hip-hop fundamentalists to accuse him of selling out, a denunciation at which Drew still bristles. Plan B: 'Strickland Banks may be soul, but it's still real life' 2010-12-16T22:29:00Z

I grew up in the time – I'm 12 years older than hip-hop and rap, so I never was in all awe of it. As hip-hop turns 50, Chuck D praises its power as "a worldwide cultural experience and religion" 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

We danced to hip-hop in his living room — and he could dance, something I had rarely experienced with my white boyfriends. Accepting Applications for a Black Boyfriend 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

But Block Party is also full of little ones — hip-hop, for one. Capitol Hill Block Party 2012: break outs and sure things 2012-07-19T14:01:12Z

The drug dealer as default role model for fatherless youth is a staple of hip-hop mythology, pop sociology and television crime drama. ‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

So then I went on to do “Centuries” for Fall Out Boy, which was a little more rock than I’ve done, to doing TV stuff like Empire and Gwen Stefani while still maintaining the hip-hop. J.R. Rotem on Producing Hits for Gwen Stefani and 'Empire' 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

Still Flashing Cash Of course, not all rap artists are playing it quite so low--this is hip-hop, after all. Cars Of The Cash Kings 2010-08-17T13:00:00Z

“Latinos are everywhere, and there are so many kids that identify with hip-hop, so you started to see people bringing that quality in Spanish,” added Fuego, a Dominican rapper. Record labels said Latin trap was ‘going nowhere.’ Billions of YouTube views proved them wrong. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

He was one of the first people in the late 1970s and early ’80s to scratch records on a turntable — late Fluxus meets early hip-hop. Christian Marclay Sees in Sound in a Show at White Cube in London 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Instead, “Ping Pong Summer” features one scene inside the still reasonably retro-looking mall, followed by one of Rad at his beach cottage, ripping the cellophane off a just-purchased tape by hip-hop group Mantronix. ‘Ping Pong Summer’ showcases an Ocean City that hasn’t changed much since 1985

“I’m not huge on hip-hop — I’m too old — but I just think it will change Broadway.” Creator and Fans Hit it Lucky With 'Hamilton' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The Rising Star of Dance: Parris Goebel, a young New Zealand native, is a self-trained hip-hop dancer who started her own dance crew and opened her own studio at the age of 17. Dancing with the Stars Results Watch: Who Is in the Finals? 2012-11-21T13:30:41Z

I let people know that I come from hip-hop, but that was one part of my life. From Master P to Uncle P: Music mogul has turned his focus to popular line of grocery staples 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

“There was an M.C., and there were freestyle hip-hop dancers; there were poppers, there were b-boys and b-girls, and it was also theater. I was like, ‘Why am I not doing that? A Choreographer Learns From the Club: ‘Live True, Dance Free’ 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

Part “King Lear,” part prime-time soap opera, “Monarch” plays like Fox’s hip-hop hit “Empire” in a Stetson. ‘Monarch’ Heralds a New Family Empire, This One With a Texas Twang 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

This time, grunge pioneers Alice In Chains and hip-hop duo Blue Scholars served as inspirations for world-premiere compositions written for symphony orchestra. Blue Scholars, Alice in Chains inspire composers for 'Sonic Evolution' 2012-10-23T14:31:03Z

As an example, a student might trace the roots of hip-hop to Jamaica, redlining, and gentrification, or conduct independent research on Black power educational institutions. They arrested me for playing basketball: A personal argument in favor of defunding the police 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

"A lot of hip-hop is about getting people to eat McDonald's," he says. Akala: 'This country is not comfortable with intelligent young black people' 2013-06-01T23:05:01Z

But Ms. Monae willfully resists genre limitations: Her third studio album “Dirty Computer,” released earlier this year, features both the superstar hip-hop producer Pharrell Williams and the Beach Boy’s Brian Wilson. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Block Party is Shabazz Palaces' second Seattle concert ever, and its in-the-moment mix of Zimbabwean Shona percussion, skeleton sampler hip-hop beats, laptop atmospherics and imagistic poetry shards is not to be missed. Capitol Hill Block Party 2010: the preview 2010-07-20T18:37:00Z

Others see another bro in a line of singers who dismiss the genre’s storied sounds by including pop, rock and hip-hop — and one who was launched via the whims of social media, no less. Kane Brown could be the future of country music. So why is the industry skeptical? 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

At the most general level, this is a smart, wide-ranging list, with a mix of hip-hop, rock, jazz and funk. Decoding Obama’s playlist: Inside his summer jams, a hint of what we’ll miss most about him 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Earlier this year he presented a social-justice-themed program at the Kennedy Center; at Sony Hall, the concert will be organized around a favorite hip-hop debate topic: Who are the top five rappers of all time? 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

While attending Florida A&M University, Ms. Johnson met Groovey Lew, a hip-hop stylist who showed her the possibility of a career built on dressing celebrities. Up Close: Put Me in That Suit, Coach 2011-04-27T20:27:32Z

I think like hip-hop and other pop culture, it's a pendulum that should swing from one extreme to the other. "Canceling is relative": Michael Che on his comedy boundaries & why he's not leaving "SNL" just yet 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z

But the hip-hop superstar won over the crowd with a blistering performance that was not without humorous touches; he opened by singing Oasis song Wonderwall. Stormy Glastonbury set for heavy metal debut 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

That raspy voice suggests a preteen much wiser than her years, but it also means the singer's Caribbean-infused hip-hop rock sound sets much of the beat. Quirky 'Home,' with Jim Parsons and Rihanna, keeps it too light 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Robert Diaz, the rapper who went by Pumpkinhead and was a frequent presence at rap competitions in New York City’s underground hip-hop scene, died Tuesday morning at age 39. New York Rapper Pumpkinhead Dies at Age 39 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

And despite its members’ impressive résumés Mr. Rue’s hip-hop group is considering going on “America’s Best Dance Crew” to stay relevant. So You Think You Can Judge Dance 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z

African-American dance idioms from shuffle and soft-shoe tap, exhilarating hip-hop and break dancing are quoted. Going green in black America at heart of Marc Bamuthi Joseph work 2012-05-31T23:32:14Z

So in 2014, she hired a videographer to tape her dance studio in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, with students performing her signature moves, blending hip-hop swagger with a gymnastic breakneck pace. Dancing Her Way to Pop Stardom, Thanks to YouTube and Rihanna 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Still in LA, a meeting was brokered at the hip-hop magnate’s home, finalising a deal that saw Onwubolu sign with his management company, Roc Nation. Rapman: the London film-maker who gatecrashed Hollywood in style 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

“You click a button and get 35 tracks delivered to your phone, based on the fact you liked an Odd Future production,” he said, referring to the Los Angeles hip-hop collective. Rhapsody’s Move to Liner Notes for Digital Tunes May Set Trend 2013-05-17T21:06:05Z

By the time someone has detailed their hip-hop story, it's already old school. Talib Kweli on hip-hop, Rudy "Ghouliani" and how Kanye West can make amends for supporting Trump 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

This season though, while the Brooklynettes' focus is still hip-hop and street jazz, the look is different, more precise. The Biggest Dance Show in Town? At a Basketball Game. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

This dynamic is seen even in the ranks of independent hip-hop. Nicki Minaj and the rise of the titillating female rapper 2010-04-13T08:46:00Z

At 16, he became a member of the hip-hop group Boogie Down Productions, alongside rappers like KRS-One and DJ Scott La Rock. The Hottest Parties in Town Are Now Online 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

Our hip-hop scene remained on fire, rock resurged and electronic music hung over everything like a fog. Top 40 of 2012, Seattle and beyond 2012-12-28T14:37:05Z

The speed with which hip-hop and high fashion have become enamored of each other is staggering. After Kanye, After Virgil, After Heron 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

This focus on hip-hop is outdated and amounts to a form of musical and racial profiling of black fans and artists, Mr. Bratton’s opponents say. Rap Concert Shooting Renews a Racially Charged Debate on Safety 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

Leacock says the group is blending influences like soca pop music from Trinidad & Tobago and reggae dancehall music from Jamaica with hip-hop dynamics and a DJ's light show. Major Lazer: Changing EDM one party at a time 2013-04-18T15:39:20Z

It was the 15th competition for the HHI organization, which supports hip-hop dancing through worldwide initiatives and regional championship competitions. Hip-hop dance crews from Japan and New Zealand repeat as world champions 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z

They were always hip-hop outsiders: white, Jewish and funny in a genre where hard-headed ghetto authenticity was and is the dominant image. Critics? Choice: New Cds: The Droll, Buzzing Grandpas of Rap 2011-05-02T19:51:31Z

The group gives the polyphonic harmonies of Ukrainian traditional songs a contemporary, internationalist makeover, using African, Australian, Arabic, Indian and Russian instrumentation alongside punk, scatting, hip-hop, trance and dance influences. DakhaBrakha, a Band From Kyiv, Saw a War Coming 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

The film was beaten by new releases such as horror sequel Sinister 2 and action reboot Hitman: Agent 47 as well as the reigning number one, hip-hop biopic Straight Outta Compton. American Ultra screenwriter blames film's failure on fear of originality 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

I also love the playful music of acts like Rae Sremmurd and G-Eazy, they bring the swag, braggadocio, the ego, and the humor, but still within the cultural truth of hip-hop. RZA Accompanies ‘The 36th Chamber of Shaolin’ 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

For example, hip-hop has a fundamental rejection of authority, which may explain why it also attracts a similar audience. Ask the indie professor: Will Kings of Leon's Sex On Fire ever go away? 2010-08-10T10:17:00Z

Public Enemy’s Chuck D famously described hip-hop as the “CNN of the ghetto,” and Schoolboy’s music is a testament to that. Even on a slightly off night, there’s no denying Schoolboy Q’s star power 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Unlike rock, pop or hip-hop, it’s not about performers who promise self-expression but then, with popularity, find themselves facing audiences from an increasing distance. Music Review: Electric Daisy Carnival at Citi Field 2013-05-19T22:05:31Z

At the 200-seat Hertz stage, “Seize the King” — Will Power’s hip-hop retelling of “Richard III” — was preparing to open. 54% of the People. 12% of the Plays. Atlanta, Do We Have a Problem? 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

Similarly, “Here Comes the Weekend,” puts Pink in an unfamiliar hip-hop context, complete with Eminem cameo, but she never sounds entirely at home over the lurching rhythm. Album review: Pink, 'The Truth About Love' 2012-09-18T04:36:00Z

On his own and with widely assorted collaborators, he delved into hip-hop, reggae, funk, dance music and non-English rock, forging grooves that have sold millions of Gorillaz albums worldwide. Music Review: A Virtual Band With Plenty of Friends 2010-10-10T06:21:00Z

When I’m working in Atlanta, radio there has a lot of good, old hip-hop. Zach Galifianakis Lives in the Cringe 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z

One of those bands, the Southern California hip-hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, has been targeted by Chicago-based advocacy groups for lyrics that depict violence against women and gays. Odd Future booking puts Pitchfork festival in an odd position 2011-07-12T07:00:00Z

He hadn’t yet formed the aesthetic identity that would make him the most influential hip-hop performer of the past decade. Drake: Rap’s Biggest Fan 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z

The warmly engaging Copeland spoke of growing up loving the blues while her peers were deep into hip-hop. Soaking up sun & soul at Chateau Ste. Michelle bluesfest 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

There is a spirit to trap music, a genre of Southern hip-hop known for its 808 drum bass and layered synthesizers. This yoga instructor’s secret to more inclusive classes: Trap music 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Dark and brutalist, it suggested hip-hop boiled down to raw parts — shuddering percussion, pugnacious boasts, dire mood. Reviews: Jidenna, Chastity Belt, Sicko Mobb and Mickey Guyton 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the most health-damaging genre of all, however, is hip-hop, which makes a heroin-scarred career in grunge look more like a seven-day lentil binge at a yoga retreat. Mike Starr and the deadliest musical genre 2011-03-10T08:15:27Z

In the modern country context — denuded accents, love songs, winks to pop and hip-hop — it feels practically heretical. Review: Chris Janson, With ‘Buy Me a Boat,’ Separates Himself From Bro-Country Genre 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Chicago hip-hop duo the Cool Kids revived the spirit of "88" -- classic, minimalist beats with tag-team vocals from the year 1988 -- in a focused set with a full band. Lollapalooza closes on high note 2011-08-08T02:22:00Z

Two hip-hop albums open in the lower half of the Top 10: 42 Dugg and EST Gee’s “Last Ones Left” is No. 7, and Fivio Foreign’s debut studio album, “B.I.B.L.E.,” starts at No. 9. Lil Durk and Morgan Wallen Return to the Top of the Album Chart 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

To immerse the audience in the swagger of Luke Cage’s Harlem, Young and Muhammad incorporated a blend of funk, jazz, hip-hop, R&B and strains of classical music as rendered by a 30-piece orchestra. LISTEN: “Marvel’s Luke Cage” and “Westworld” composers break down their shows’ signature sounds 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

With that voice, he helped bring the best R&B, soul and later hip-hop acts to TV. 'Soul Train' host Don Cornelius dead of suicide 2012-02-02T11:48:22Z

“How many people think of hip-hop as Indian music?” said Korwar. Beyond the Stereotypes, a New View of Indian Music 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

His architectural designs are directly inspired by hip-hop lyrics, and he founded a children’s camp based on his ideas. ‘Mixtape Trilogy’ Review: Powerful Music, but a Less Powerful Film 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

The Beastie Boys are indeed three bad brothers who made history," said Chuck D. "They brought a whole new look to rap and hip-hop. Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies at 47 2012-05-04T18:27:21Z

Each feels shaped by the practices of the trio rather than imposed from the outside, with a style governed by the full sweep of jazz tradition, and by hip-hop, blues and gospel besides. New From Roots, Travie McCoy, Jason Moran and Nina Nastasia 2010-06-20T23:48:00Z

Yet "Street Poison," with all its engaging intellectual and investigative heft, fails to reckon with some heavy questions: Did this undeniable influence on literature, film and hip-hop encourage radical, revolutionary black love? A cold, hard look at the work and influence of Robert 'Iceberg Slim' Berg 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Q: You work within the traditions of R&B, an area that seems endangered in a world gone to hip-hop and electronic dance music. Maxwell keeps making his music his way, with inspiration from Prince 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

He is in Technicolor, the sort of visually specific personality that does well on the hip-hop Internet. Stitches, the Transgressive Rapper, Plays Amityville 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

“But I’m a girl from Brooklyn, too, and I was also raised in hip-hop. I pull from all those experiences.” DanceAfrica Turns Its (Virtual) Gaze to Haiti 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

This week brought the rapper and actor Ludacris, in the role of a corrections officer with a special disdain for hip-hop stars, and the former Destiny’s Child singer Kelly Rowland as young Lucious Lyon’s mother. 'Empire' Recap: Season 2, Episode 2, Start of a Dynasty 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

For hip-hop fans, Coolio, Naughty by Nature, Digital Underground and House of Pain will appear on July 15. ArtsBeat: Montreux Jazz Festival Announces Lineup 2011-04-13T20:57:39Z

A Hip-Hop Rant, With Epiphanies and Caricatures Included “Ingenious Nature,” a theatrical mixtape now at SoHo Playhouse, is the white Canadian rapper Baba Brinkman’s latest foray into educational hip-hop theater. Theater Review: ‘Ingenious Nature,’ at SoHo Playhouse 2012-12-22T07:30:07Z

One hallmark of your work is that your hip-hop parodies actually show how good you are at the form. Justin Bieber, They’re Coming for You 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

This is a development that I believe could open doors for scholars from all kinds of different backgrounds – including but not limited to hip-hop scholars – to contribute new forms of knowledge. Hip-hop professor looks to open doors with world’s first peer-reviewed rap album 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

It also tracks the rise of British hip-hop with the whole of Monday night given over to the likes of Bad Taste Cru, Boy Blue Entertainment and ZooNation. This week's new dance 2013-05-04T05:00:20Z

Endtroducing took hip-hop out of the realm of swaggering rap and into a more experimental place. Flying Lotus 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

Forty-seven songs; more than 20,000 words; fast-paced lyrics, abundant wordplay, complex rhyming patterns, plus allusions not only to hip-hop and musical theater but also to arcane aspects of early American history. They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

His blog RNT — the full title can’t be printed — was an early warning system for emerging hip-hop that was both stylish and rugged, from all corners of the country. ASAP Yams, of ASAP Worldwide, Bridged Hip-Hop Regions and Generations 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

But the conventions of male country have also hardened in recent years: ball caps, tailgates, flip-flops, hip-hop, women as decorative objects. Kacey Musgraves and Other ‘Tomatoes’ Give Country Its Bite 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Nine years ago, Miranda prophetically purchased Chernow’s “Hamilton” before going on vacation and envisioned — what else? — a hip-hop musical about the nation’s first treasury secretary. How do you top ‘Hamilton’? Author Ron Chernow is about to find out. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

But as hip-hop evolves, Summer Jam needs to search for new traditions to set itself apart. Review: Only Suspense at Summer Jam Was Outside the Stadium 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

In an interview with The Washington Post, he declared that profanity in hip-hop is “more damaging” to the black community than the Confederate statues that have come down across the country. Wynton Marsalis Provokes Again With Head-Scratching ‘Ever Fonky Lowdown’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

Newman to hip-hop MC Psalm One – adding lyrics and melodies over the musical beds built by Reidell and Brink. The Hood Internet takes mash-ups a step further 2012-11-01T18:00:00Z

The hip-hop numbers are unobjectionable, though really you’re better off watching music videos. Dance Review: Out of the DVR and Onto the Stage 2010-10-08T22:00:00Z

Aug. 6: The two names atop the lineup present a clear-cut choice for the fans, with a fairly traditional rock act going against a hip-hop icon. Lollapalooza day-by-day: Which day is the best if you can only do 1? 2011-06-07T13:03:44Z

Times contributor Matt Cooper has rounded up a selection of events — including jazz, hip-hop, comedy and a free outdoor concert — with which to ring in the New Year. Essential Arts & Culture: New Year's culture events, art and democracy, surviving the fires 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

“And look around. There’s so much desire in here! But the biggest thing lacking in hip-hop is information.” Washingtonians, please don’t let ‘Hamilton’ be your hip-hop crash course 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

No serious discussion of hip-hop on television can omit mention of Cardi B, whose ascent began with her 2015 turn on “Love & Hip Hop: New York.” Four Shows at the Center of a Golden Age of Hip-Hop Television 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

A companion piece in the same newspaper, also featuring Khalifa, focused on the vogue among hip-hop artists for breaking into song. New band of the day ? No 954: Wiz Khalifa 2011-01-26T16:36:49Z

It’s his third studio album following the wildly successful “Beauty Behind the Madnes,” which went to No. 1 on both the Billboard 200 and R&B/hip-hop album charts. R&B sensation The Weeknd coming to KeyArena 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

He added that in running for 20th Ward alderman earlier this year "the arts was put on trial" and as a hip-hop artist he was stigmatized. The law remains the same 2011-10-04T19:17:00Z

A particular focus of many native hip-hop artists’ music today is environmental damage. Fighting the power and speaking for the earth: The explosion of Native American hip-hop 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

Brown’s dad, a house DJ, encouraged his son’s passion and took him to hip-hop concerts, including a memorable outdoor show by Run D.M.C. and L.L. Danny Brown finds success by rapping about being broke 2012-03-28T00:18:00Z

West Coast hip-hop, favorite “Simpsons” episodes and movies like “The Usual Suspects.” Generation Gone: Where are all the Gen X Democrats? 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

I didn't know about hip-hop at the time, that came later. John Cale: 'I don't want to end up in Pseud's Corner' 2012-09-26T08:50:35Z

The D.J.’s play a mix of hip-hop, R&B and top 40. 36 Hours in Santa Monica, Calif. 2010-10-15T05:00:00Z

While hip-hop and art have often intertwined, it mostly occurs on the fringes, not at Sotheby’s. A Quieter Side of Swizz Beatz 2012-09-28T19:46:44Z

“Just like hip-hop, it’s not a black thing anymore.” Fans love it. Critics don’t. After Tyler Perry, can urban theater cross over? 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

"Run DMC's 'you guys' style felt comfortable and accessible. And once hip-hop became accessible, the fashion became accessible and spread like wildfire." 'Fresh Dressed' documentary explores hip-hop fashion through the years 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, you enter modern times and learn about art, clothing, food and music created by black artists, including hip-hop musicians. African Americans have shaped history, and history has shaped them 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Last June, he was injured in a brawl with members of hip-hop star Drake's entourage at a New York nightclub. Chris Brown investigated for possible assault 2013-01-28T12:45:12Z

Having listened to Mr. Lamar’s music, Steve Reich, who won in 2009, said, “I don’t know enough hip-hop to separate him from other hip-hop artists.” A Year After Kendrick Lamar, Will the Music Pulitzer Embrace Pop? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

The superstars of earlier hip-hop generations typically lived their post-peak careers just out of the limelight. Hip-Hop Is Evolving. Just Ask Its Superstars. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Theater Alliance revives its hit staging, winner of five Helen Hayes Awards earlier this year, of Marc Bamunthi Joseph’s hip-hop fugue. DC Theater Friday: A localized ‘Native Gardens’ and an inspired ‘A Train’ 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Her high energy, historically sweeping works are a powerful blend of modern, ballet, hip-hop, West African and African-American vernacular forms. The School That Camille A. Brown Built 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

Even some fellow artists didn't support his efforts because they were put off by his association with hip-hop, a genre they didn't enjoy or understand. The law remains the same 2011-10-04T19:17:00Z

Mount Kimbie, James Blake, a lot of underground LA hip-hop – it's happening. Nicolas Jaar is the renaissance man of electronic music 2011-03-12T00:07:22Z

Expect quite a menu of music; Wubbe's piece, "Messiah," is set to music by Handel, of course, while Rocha's piece depicts a hip-hop battle. 13 of Seattle's top entertainment picks for May 6-12, 2012 2012-05-04T03:18:09Z

So what if American hip-hop is all the rage in South Africa? 2010-02-06T05:46:00Z

“I think it came with the discovery of boys, probably, and the discovery of hip-hop.” Up Close: Joséphine de la Baume – Actress and Musician 2013-05-29T20:18:39Z

To paraphrase one of Kendall's hip-hop victims, this show is burning my eyes, but nothing can persuade me to look away. "Succession" returns after two years, and the Roy family hasn't changed a bit 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z

“Teflon Don” isn’t the consistently sumptuous affair that his last album, the magisterial “Deeper Than Rap,” was, but it’s just as confident, a reminder that hip-hop social climbing isn’t monochromatic. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Rick Ross, Marc Cohn, Frazey Ford 2010-07-18T21:21:00Z

Cool things about the performance: The Roots are Fallon's house band, aka the greatest live band in hip-hop, and they played drums and instruments. Video with commentary: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis on 'Fallon' 2012-12-12T14:38:06Z

With hip-hop assuming a rock ’n’ roll brashness and attitude, it just made it more of a powerful juggernaut. Apple Music: Platform? Promoter? Both. 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile the modern dialect of the piano trio was opening up, metabolizing aspects of hip-hop and indie-rock, putting the focus on collectivism. Critics? Choice: New From Etheridge, Roky Erickson and Jacky Terrasson 2010-04-25T22:18:00Z

The First Dance A good friend of Mr. Clayton’s choreographed it, as Mr. Clayton was a semiprofessional hip-hop dancer for six years. In Love and Recovery 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

It was a riff on traditional African styles of dress, the artistry of the Harlem renaissance, the religiosity of church ladies and the politics of hip-hop. What the Redskins and fashion world share: Borrowing, sometimes badly, from cultures

The mode was hip-hop, so the dance’s bouncy, kinetic pleasures weren’t surprising. Dance Review: Contemporary Dance Showcase at Japan Society 2013-01-16T17:52:03Z

But hip-hop hasn’t built its own aspirational brands to wear into the executive suite or down the red carpet. Hip-hop was poised to conquer fashion. Why did it stop short? 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

The outfits — plenty by the hip-hop couturier Dapper Dan — are colorful and luxe, though by the end of the club’s run, they shift away from ostentation. When New York’s Nightclubs Were Secret Empires 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

That ruling would help set a precedent in the music industry by requiring that even small chunks of sampled music — a cornerstone of hip-hop aesthetics and studio production — must be approved in advance. Biz Markie, Hip-Hop’s ‘Just a Friend’ Clown Prince, Dies at 57 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

Decoration is minimal, except for a graffiti mural in the back with mugs of former teachers, like the popular Seattle hip-hop duo Blue Scholars. Katalyst arts program unites youth from many backgrounds 2010-06-02T22:24:00Z

Since its inception in the 1970s, hip-hop has struggled to gain respect as a business and art form. Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Signals Hip-Hop’s Growing Cultural Clout 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

So what about the world of Atlanta hip-hop? Atlanta star Brian Tyree Henry: if Trump gets elected 'it's going to be Mad Max' 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bradford’s art is of and about cities, the main one being Los Angeles, where he grew up black and gay in an era dominated by hip-hop, identity politics and AIDS. Art Review: Tracking Racial Identity, But Not Defined by It 2010-12-23T22:15:18Z

His music is equally outside the hip-hop norm, with beat-less interludes and lost-in-space keyboards that occasionally make Drake sound like he’s several planets away. Album review: Drake, 'Take Care' 2011-11-13T19:26:00Z

He also refused to rely on stock footage for the famous opening scene, with its booming hip-hop track and helicopter shots of Manhattan that push in on Snipes dangling a man over the Queensboro Bridge. ‘Boyz n the Hood’ at 25: A look back at 1991’s black film renaissance 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

In one moment they link arms for a folk dance, and in the next, they rush to the front of the stage to try out some hip-hop moves. Dance Review: Juilliard Dance at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-12-14T23:58:27Z

From the 80s onwards, it was having to accommodate the styles that succeeded it – such as disco, synth-pop, hip-hop and dance music. There's nothing new in genre-mixing 2011-02-24T22:32:01Z

He’d added a beat to Roach’s words — bubbly and light, like the jerk music that dominated Los Angeles hip-hop in the late 2000s — and in the caption, announced that he’d made a song with Roach. It’s a TikTok! No, It’s a Song! Drake and the Viral Feedback Loop 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

The hip-hop mashups were so deafening that by now there was nothing left for anyone to do but shut up and dance. Scene City: Art Basel Miami Beach Continues to Party 2012-12-07T20:44:55Z

The goal, as she explained to The Globe, was to energize the jazz scene and connect it to audiences schooled on hip-hop. Meghan Stabile, Who Linked Jazz and Hip-Hop, Dies at 39 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

In a radio interview last month, he argued that neither hip-hop acts nor dance music performers like Donna Summer and Madonna should be in the Hall. Hall of Fame Decides Who Rocks, Officially 2014-04-09T21:44:44Z

Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. Talib Kweli on the Burdens of Being Hip-Hop’s Outspoken Conscience 2013-06-19T16:29:21Z

He’s proud to have had a part in a historic election — probably how a good portion of Atlanta’s hip-hop community hopes to feel after the midterms. Atlanta rappers are backing Stacey Abrams. And it all goes back to Young Jeezy. 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Let’s see what the hip-hop dance is going to be.’” The Choreographer Kyle Abraham Mixes Things Up at City Ballet 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

The album, which mixed a wide range of musical genres from American hip-hop to English pop, won Black a cult following on both sides of the English Channel but somehow eluded mainstream success. Singer-songwriter Dan Black looks for U.S. breakthrough 2010-03-15T19:07:00Z

As it evolved, the festival made room for pop, rhythm and blues, rock and hip-hop. All that jazz 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Flying Lotus’s headlining performance at Carnegie Hall marks a new level of mainstream acclaim for a beat maker who came up through Los Angeles’s hip-hop underground. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Graffiti artists bridged the gap between the downtown galleries and the nascent South Bronx hip-hop scene. Antony Hegarty's Meltdown: New York pioneers who walked on the wild side 2012-07-28T23:05:37Z

Inspired by the political turmoil he experienced during his childhood, he sees funk music as the foundation of hip-hop dance and modern culture. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Nowadays it more often means hip-hop from regions with little national exposure, artists with little chance of radio play. Critic?s Notebook: In the Hip-Hop World, Blogs Mean Business 2011-05-27T23:15:20Z

Maybe more than movies, it was music that opened the channels of American Afrocentrism, from jazz, soul and funk to early hip-hop. Black Panther: does the Marvel epic solve Hollywood's Africa problem? 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

Zeds Dead rampaged through bits of hip-hop, pop, house, reggae, dubstep and more, thoroughly unpredictable and thoroughly entertaining. Electric Zoo Returns Under Watchful Eyes 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

Refreshingly, all the issues that pervade hip-hop today were present then: commerce versus message; artist versus record label; and of course, authenticity. | Music: On DVD, ‘Big Fun in the Big Town’ and Diana Ross in Concert 2012-06-21T21:38:04Z

Listening to his blend of thuggish New York hip-hop and trashy European dance music is already like a visual experience, conjuring an epic bar fight at a disco. Decibel Festival and the future of electronic music 2011-09-24T15:16:03Z

Nearly all hip-hop artists acknowledge his influence on their music. Mick Jagger on James Brown: "I Copied All His Moves" 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Also expected are segments about the birth of her now 7-month-old baby, Blue Ivy Carter, with her husband, hip-hop mogul Jay-Z. Beyoncé to Direct, Produce Documentary…About Beyoncé 2012-08-03T18:34:58Z

“When I first started promoting shows, I had to learn how to promote specifically to the jazz heads and specifically to the hip-hop heads,” she said. Meghan Stabile, Who Linked Jazz and Hip-Hop, Dies at 39 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

"I'm just happy to see L.A. music come full circle, to see the mayor out here for L.A. hip-hop. It's crazy." Made in America Festival makes debut at downtown L.A.'s Grand Park 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

“I’m still thinking I’m in a dream because I can’t believe that they will let a real hip-hop artist grace the stage in an NFL Super Bowl,” he said. Snoop Dogg calls Super Bowl halftime show ‘dream come true’ 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Jackson-Dumont, a lover of hip-hop and other DJ music, invited DJs to spin at the events and encouraged them to play records that tied in with the museum's exhibits. Seattle's Sandra Jackson-Dumont makes art a party 2011-05-26T18:46:02Z

There are relatively straightforward hip-hop moments on "E3," too, such as Issue rhyming over the "T.R.O.Y." beat, and "Wedding Cake," which thumps over what sounds like bells sampled from a Hollywood Christmas movie. Download this: "E3" by Issue 2011-05-31T16:04:06Z

“I was part of a hip-hop group called Fly Style,” she recalls, laughing. Greta Gerwig: ‘I don't need a man. I would have done all this anyway' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

On the first day of camp, her charges watch a documentary tracing the birth of hip-hop, when the first DJs inspired break dancing and rap, and invented scratching and "beat-juggling" on vinyl. Young people with old souls prefer records to CDs 2011-03-21T16:19:11Z

And two years later, “Style Wars,” a documentary about the roles of graffiti and break dancing in shaping the city’s burgeoning hip-hop culture, was released. How Basquiat and Street Artists Left Their Mark on Hip-Hop Culture 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

“Then, we made our way to 1990s hip-hop. Her mom said, ‘Oh, that’s me. The School That Camille A. Brown Built 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

Peppered with an array of original songs, “Sneakerella” is a hip-hop opera whose music is never mere emotional embroidery. ‘Sneakerella’ Review: Beauty and the Hypebeast 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

It’s been nearly three years since Minaj released her third studio album, “The Pinkprint”, an R. & B.-oriented breakup album whose poppy sound refused to cater to the demands of the hip-hop establishment. Nicki Minaj’s Empty Obsession with Being No. 1 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

It’s the perception that she is strait-laced that makes it funny just hearing her say the names of her guests, often hip-hop artists: “We had Lil Yachty. Do you know him?” Forget the handmade wreaths. Now Martha Stewart hangs with Snoop Dogg and makes weed jokes. 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

“I would really like to go outside of the box and add an experimental aspect to hip-hop because I think hip-hop is so generic these days,” he said. Kid Krono Wrote Music for Kanye West Between Classes 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Andrews grew up in a musical New Orleans family, began playing trombone when he was four years old and soon was playing in a brass band while also listening to hip-hop. Trombone Shorty no mere blowhard 2011-04-05T14:44:00Z

“Urban Camouflage,” the title of Mr. Colter’s piece, hinted at the incongruity of hip-hop at this verdant former estate, but the work faded into its surroundings too well. ‘Dancing Through the Bronx’ Makes a Stop at Wave Hill 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

Of course, there’s a hip-hop cameo: Wiz Khalifa in “Influence,” with a burst of double time on cue before the final choruses. Tove Lo’s ‘Lady Wood’: More Professional Than Passionate 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

I'll be playing some classic songs like African Woman but also looking forward to playing alongside people like Kano and some of the young hip-hop musicians. Baaba Maal: 'It will be a challenge for us all to live together' 2012-08-25T23:08:54Z

Her career started in the mid-aughts with gospel- and island-inflected tunes, but she struck gold with a combination of pop, R&B, hip-hop and electronic dance music. Rihanna to play KeyArena 2013-03-28T21:01:19Z

One scatted like a jazz singer, another embodied hip-hop, another the smooth and swiveling hip movements of a salsa. Frida Kahlo meets John Coltrane in electric dance homage 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

“My kid is a hip-hop guy but a huge Nirvana fan,” Reid says. Film of legendary Nirvana performance at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre to be shown there for first time 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Especially one so determinedly unfashionable as Venice — a grandiose, over-the-the-top, melodramatic mix of political allegory and Shakespearean tragedy, set to hip-hop music by a white guy from the suburbs? Venice: A Hiphop Dystopia Comes to New York 2013-06-19T09:45:17Z

Hope that the 95 hour hip-hop / R&B compilation is available to download or purchase? JJ Johnson Is a Young Chef on the Rise, to a Hip-Hop Beat 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

It uses a colorful collage of images to trace the history of the Grammy Award-winning hip-hop group. The Roots live large in new Philadelphia mural 2013-05-31T19:11:08Z

While the story largely centers on the father-and-son-like bond between Adonis and an ailing Rocky, it is told through the eyes of young black millennials, showcasing the city’s hip-hop and dirt bike scenes. Michael B. Jordan Gives Millennials Their ‘Rocky’ With ‘Creed’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

The chance to join them — to be anointed a beast — was one draw of BuildaBEAST, which, after a few days of classes in hip-hop and contemporary dance styles, culminated in an audition for the troupe. WilldaBeast, and Other Forces to Be Reckoned With 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

The nature of the spell that conjured the unlikely friendship between domestic diva Martha Stewart and hip-hop legend Snoop Dogg, remains a mystery. The weird high magic of “Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party” 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Looking back, it now seems incredible just how much kerfuffle the arrival of hip-hop caused, and how vehement the arguments became. How NWA came straight outta Compton and went mainstream 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

There is, indeed, nothing inherently sexist about hip-hop and rap. Glastonbury 2010: I love Snoop Dogg the artist ? but despise him as a man 2010-06-27T18:59:00Z

Khalid was also happy that hip-hop and rap dominated the nominations. Kendrick Lamar wins Grammy for rap/sung performance 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

Hot 97 also had one of the most compelling story lines in hip-hop last year: that of the D.J. Television Review: ‘This Is Hot 97’ on VH1 Spoofs Reality Shows 2014-03-30T21:52:05Z

A music festival in Marseilles commissioned him to work with Joe Driscoll, a New Yorker based in Britain, whose style is influenced by folk and hip-hop. Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate – review 2013-03-19T16:27:13Z

Featuring a handful of respected session musicians and produced by hip-hop producer No I.D. RPA & the United Nations of Sound: United Nations of Sound 2010-07-15T22:30:00Z

She wasn't too surprised when it showed up on a local hip-hop compilation, but she was completely blown away when it started getting radio airplay soon after release. Hip-hop: who represents Africa? 2011-02-17T21:59:01Z

When I work out, I have a playlist that I create — it’s almost all ’90s hip-hop. Q&A with Common: Push-ups, Tiffany Haddish and where the rapper finds inspiration and peace 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Sure enough she shows up backstage at the relatively small Blue Stage to watch a performance by Kendrick Lamar, the California MC who is leading a new wave of West Coast hip-hop. Pitchfork Day 3: Vampire Weekend, Ty Segall, Kendrick Lamar (and Lady Gaga?) 2012-07-16T05:11:00Z

In many of these cases, an artist’s very participation in hip-hop is painted as a moral shortcoming that suggests a propensity for real-world violence and degeneracy. The Controversial Use of Rap Lyrics as Evidence 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Increasingly, his own work doesn’t really propose variants on hip-hop or house or dark-ambient — it’s both more stretchy and more obdurate than any of those definitions. Review: Arca Keeps Moving With ‘Mutant’ 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

You’ve become a role model of conscientious hip-hop, do you want break out of that? Talib Kweli on the Burdens of Being Hip-Hop’s Outspoken Conscience 2013-06-19T16:29:21Z

I spoke with perfectly enunciated English, preferred rock music to hip-hop, played tennis, learned how to golf. I fell in love with a Salon commenter 2013-12-10T00:00:00Z

Privileging rock over hip-hop, dance and other genres is needlessly reductionist — and, some might argue, kinda racist. Why It’s Time to Take ‘Rock’ Out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2012-10-10T12:00:41Z

Finally the festival was home to another 1990s revival: the culture war around offensive hip-hop lyrics. Critic?s Notebook: Back to the ?90s, Tootling a Flute 2011-07-18T23:12:24Z

He a hip-hop star turned impresario and now sports agent, she about to embark on a world tour of The Mrs Carter Show. Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Cuban holiday under scrutiny from US Republicans 2013-04-07T17:29:01Z

Now, he’s appearing at the Public Theater in the hottest show of the season, “Hamilton,” a hip-hop musical centered on the life of Alexander Hamilton. Jonathan Groff’s Life Imitates His Art 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

They will draw inspiration from the show “Hip-Hop Revolution,” which includes work by the photographer Janette Beckman, who worked with graffiti artists to layer words and drawings on top of her images documenting hip-hop culture. Spare Times for Children for Sept. 11-17 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

The musical “Hamilton” unapologetically draws a line from that sentiment to its retelling through rap and hip-hop. ‘Hamilton’ choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler delivers a revolution that rocks  2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

A religious reading is easy to grasp: Joseph was homeschooled before attending a Christian school where his father was principal, and Dun wasn’t allowed to listen to hip-hop or rock. The Slippery Appeal of the Biggest New Band in America 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

I was also unaware that Basquiat and hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy had formed a friendship, one that would solidify the partnership between graffiti and hip-hop for decades to come. Art in Bristol, England, Moves Beyond Museum Walls 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

That environment includes the influences of Michael Jackson, Sting and hip-hop just as much as Charlie Parker or bebop.” Al Jarreau, seven-time Grammy-winning singer, dies at 76 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

This piece, produced by the Foundry Theater, draws on ancient myth and contemporary hip-hop as it explores the debilitating relationship between the prison system and minority men. Theater Review: ‘The Box,’ at Irondale Center, Depicts Prison Life 2014-05-02T21:26:17Z

As the series progresses, she and other competitors use hip-hop to establish freedom from their government. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Thing About Harry’ and ‘Winn-Dixie’ 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z

The musical artist was filmed earlier this month in an unauthorized stunt that he said was part of a tribute video for the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan. Rapper with flamethrower in custody over NYC bus stunt 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Of Puerto Rican heritage, he was a gifted Hunter College High School student and theater major at Wesleyan University — and an expert freestyle rapper and ardent hip-hop fan. Salsa and rap musical 'In the Heights' ? coming to 5th Avenue ? lifted creator to early stardom 2010-09-23T20:24:00Z

This is perhaps the annotation site's biggest coup yet, and proof that hip-hop artists at all levels are paying attention to it as a more or less definitive lyrical and storytelling resource.  Eminem annotates Genius lyrics, compares himself to Lisa Lampanelli 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Unfairly, in the streaming service's initial plan, it only targeted black men in R&B and hip-hop, despite the scores of other genres and artists plagued by similar accusations. Why #MeToo has had little effect on the music industry 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

But his viral success has precipitated a boom in English-language hip-hop in Jakarta, giving other young Indonesians the hope that they too could make it big. Meet 17-Year-Old Indonesian Rapper Rich Chigga 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

After speaking, she slipped on a hooded cardigan in the brand’s signature woven multicolor mélange, the sort of hip-hop staple her son used to wear and loved being connected to. ASAP Yams, Honored as an Imbiber and Arbiter of Hip-Hop 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

As a teenager she expressed them in hip-hop, sharing her ideas and rhymes at the Good Life, a club not far from the University of Southern California campus. Ava DuVernay and ‘Middle of Nowhere’ 2012-10-07T05:03:01Z

Things get dated quickly because hip-hop moves so fast. Talib Kweli on hip-hop, Rudy "Ghouliani" and how Kanye West can make amends for supporting Trump 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

But for people like me — self-conscious rap fans from the suburbs, looking for something arty and heart-y — Tribe is pretty much hip-hop 101. The new A Tribe Called Quest documentary, and their "worst" album 2011-07-30T01:46:04Z

It’s no secret that much of his longevity hinges on the timelessness of “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx,” the album that spawned the Mafioso hip-hop sub-genre and rewrote the rap lexicon. How does a 45-year-old rapper stay relevant in a genre that feeds off youth? 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

She added: “It shines a light on hip-hop in a completely different way. This is a big moment for hip-hop music and a big moment for the Pulitzers.” Kendrick Lamar Wins Pulitzer in ‘Big Moment for Hip-Hop’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

It quotes secretary general Wajdi Bouzaidi telling private radio station that the group aimed to defend the rights of hip-hop artists. Where rappers have 'formed a trade union' 2013-10-15T15:18:30Z

It was actually in high school that you listened to a hip-hop song that inspired you to become vegan. Bryant Terry says he just wrote his last cookbook—but this top chef hasn't finished leaving his mark 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

The song shows Urban is experimenting with different genres, as the upbeat tune takes a strong pop music approach with a hint of hip-hop mixed in. Singer Keith Urban navigates 'uncharted waters' on new album 2013-09-11T00:32:56Z

Luhrmann told Flash that he wasn’t interested in telling a story about hip-hop in the ’80s — he wanted to know what came before that. How Baz Luhrmann captured the essence of hip-hop in Netflix’s ‘The Get Down’ 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

That half-century point is also an occasion to start constructing a hip-hop canon. Best and Worst Moments From the 2023 Grammys 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

An excellent example of what is happening in these lands, their project mixes hip-hop, urban and world music. July's best music from across the MAP 2012-07-18T09:17:04Z

According to Dr. Joseph, the resurgence of black power iconography in ’80s hip-hop stimulated a new generation of interest in the movement, which continues to mature in the academic world. ?The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975,? Temperate Militants 2011-09-02T19:13:02Z

But since then, your sound has evolved to include rock, hip-hop, folk and more. Calle 13 on hip-hop swag, Puerto Rico's status and Julian Assange 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

But these reactions are also a signal of how expendable hip-hop culture — and, by extension, black culture and youth culture — is to mainstream, predominantly white-owned corporations. Critic’s Notebook: Lil Wayne and Other Rappers Run Afoul of Propriety 2013-05-07T18:41:15Z

A family drama about a hip-hop business empire from filmmaker Lee Daniels and a coming-of-age series from Steven Spielberg will be part of Fox's 2014-15 season, the network said Tuesday. Fox orders TV shows from Lee Daniels, Spielberg 2014-05-07T13:01:52Z

Most of the genre’s rising stars are brawny dudes with arena-rock instincts and hints of hip-hop attitude. Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert Take Top Honors at the 2014 Country Music Association Awards 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

For some events, especially hip-hop shows, the pat-downs and searches are especially thorough. Despite Security, Concerts Provide ‘Target-Rich’ Environments 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

Turned out in pink mink and diamonds at New York Fashion Week in 2003, the hip-hop artist Cam’ron lent the sugary hue some clout. A Big Bold Show Wants You to Rethink Pink 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

“If they move with a little bit of flavor, it’s thrown in the hip-hop category,” Mr. Rue said while watching the routine commended for swagginess. So You Think You Can Judge Dance 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z

Some wear traditional clothing, while others favor hip-hop and Hollywood-influenced fashions. Movie Review: ‘The Pirogue,’ Directed by Moussa Touré 2013-01-22T23:28:36Z

"I'm glad so many of the nominees were hip-hop, but they should have my man Rick Ross up in there," said Redman of the rapper, whose "Teflon Don" was shut out of the hip-hop categories. Redman drops new album 2010-12-08T03:54:00Z

Are there any other hip-hop luminaries you're hoping to collar at the festival? Glastonbury preview: Part one 2013-06-25T06:12:44Z

The Wu-Tang Clan, former rap revolutionaries launching a comeback in an era of hip-hop dominance, must actually make a case for their continued relevance. AC/DC and Wu-Tang Clan: These bands are brands — and can they sell in this era?

Ms. Hinkle would play hip-hop, including Kanye West, and then draw on acid-free, recycled paper, dipping Spanish moss into India ink while dancing, which creates the nebulous and sporadic nature of her work. One Artist’s Melancholy Look at Missing African-American Women 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

But whether it’s the hip-hop ballad penned in memory of Paul Walker, or the Taylor Swift banger everyone’s pretty sure is a dig at Katy Perry, one of these songs is going to be everywhere. Which of These Songs Will Become the Song of the Summer? 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Harry Fraud Speaking of 1999, that was a time when New York hip-hop demanded that one take a stand, not just on cultural politics, but also on sonics. Playlist: New Releases From Friends, Wade Bowen and Joey Badass 2012-07-27T16:00:00Z

The genre has evolved further to incorporate hip-hop and dance music, neither of which Brooks appears much interested in. Still a maverick, Garth Brooks returns with 'Man Against Machine' 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

A “King Lear” for the Def Jam Records generation, the series stars Terrence Howard as a dying hip-hop mogul whose family wrestles for control of his entertainment company. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Single Parents’ and ‘Empire’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

He found solace in hip-hop and became a graffiti artist, though he wasn’t accepted by his tagger peers. Review: ‘One of Us,’ by Asne Seierstad, on Anders Breivik’s Rampage in Norway 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

As Too Short had explained while the four friends huddled together after the photo shoot, “The hip-hop spirit doesn’t really age. It’s like a little kid thing you’ve got that’s your spark of life.” One Surreal Night With the Rap Veterans of Mount Westmore 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z

One of the things I thought was fascinating about the Central Park Five: 1989 was the time when hip-hop was becoming mainstream. ‘The Central Park Five,’ in song: composer Anthony Davis on his new opera 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

Cast members from the Broadway show “Motown: The Musical” will perform on one of the festival’s four stages, which will also feature gospel, salsa, reggae and hip-hop acts as well as dance performances. Spare Times for Aug. 16-22 2013-08-15T22:40:53Z

What’s more, it convinces us that hip-hop and its generic cousins embody the cocky, restless spirit of self-determination that birthed the American independence movement. Review: In ‘Hamilton,’ Lin-Manuel Miranda Forges Democracy Through Rap 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

It's my interview with Irish hip-hop comedy sensation The Rubberbandits, now performing their debut London gigs. Seinfeld takes up hip-hop and Rowan Atkinson takes on the law – and wins 2013-01-22T16:18:04Z

A do-it-yourself ethos predominates among Irish hip-hop acts. Hip-Hop With an Irish Lilt 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

Her album, “Invasion of Privacy,” was surprisingly shut of the favorite rap/hip-hop album category. Taylor Swift, Cardi B set for American Music Awards 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

He has transformed the biography of one of America’s Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton, into a merry, extravagantly annotated hip-hop operetta. History as you’ve never heard it before 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Rap and hip-hop is such a massive part of second and third generation South Asian's sense of being. Ravi Kapoor on his comedy "Four Samosas": "I always wanted to make a lo-fi heist movie" 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

It was the first hip-hop song to win either award. Grammys 2019: Cardi B, Lady Gaga and Kacey Musgraves Make It a Year for Women 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

When “Rap Sh!t” premiered in July 2022, the sitcom embraced Miami’s Black cultural landscape, as well as the recent female MC renaissance, with a rags-to-slightly-nicer-rags tale of two locals chasing a hip-hop dream. A Rap Comedy Hits the Road 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z

With a pitch-perfect flow and a voice as dusty as Utica Road, he's making some truly amazing hip-hop. Flow like the river: Big K.R.I.T. and Mississippi's flood of hip-hop 2013-03-27T10:43:27Z

Kraftwerk had a really big inspiration on the beginning of hip-hop. Just a minute with: Dr. Dre, rapper, entrepreneur 2010-04-09T14:04:00Z

Ross grinned and intoned, “Biggest picture in hip-hop.” Rick Ross Reflects 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

There was essentially no hip-hop, except as a shadow influence. Review: Jingle Ball Tour Shows Radio Still Rocks 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

Hernandez tackled race, immigration and the question of home in “Stomping Grounds,” equal parts hip-hop and opera. Beloved yet problematic: Seattle Opera tackles the cultural controversies behind ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Dig Vitamin's irie styles on "Deck the Hall," and the way he chops up what sounds like a recording of a local TV news person on "You Wrap," flipped to sound like she's criticizing hip-hop. Download this: 'Crismas Trees' by Sta Hi Brothas 2011-12-21T21:31:04Z

That was a David Bowie thing, it was a Prince thing, it’s always been a hip-hop thing, and it’s very much a Beyoncé thing. Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ turns life’s lemons into furious pop 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Other acts fuse hip-hop with Afrobeats, R&B and dance music. Hip-Hop With an Irish Lilt 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

And while the group’s embrace of hip-hop certainly bodes well for its future, the numerous hits from its peak will always be the centerpiece of a Parliament-Funkadelic show. George Clinton gives a glimpse of what Parliament-Funkadelic will be like without him 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

And “Fight the Power,” a punishingly catchy anti-establishment anthem by the most vocal political hip-hop act of all time, is good theme music for an assault from within. ‘Fight the Power’ Roars Back to Relevance at the Oscars 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

That was in 2002, right around the peak of the CD age, and an era in which the pop mainstream hadn’t yet fully absorbed hip-hop. Shania Twain Walked Out on Top. Now She Wants Back In. 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

These pieces feel like dialogue, not tug-of-war, and radiate the sense of hip-hop as a living, breathing tradition, with innovators and inheritors, forever learning from one another. The Year in Yesteryear: Standout Music Books and Boxed Sets 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Actively shunning sexism and violence, Fiasco stands out from many of his hip-hop peers. Lupe Fiasco: Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt 1 – review 2012-09-27T20:53:01Z

Music has no colour, real hip-hop artists do not make music for any specific type of person. Miley Cyrus has gone hip-hop. What's the problem? 2013-07-05T15:04:32Z

“It was heartbreaking to see their existence and their everyday struggle, yet they’re using hip-hop to bring about unity,” Mr. Colon said. Webcast by a Hip-Hopper Who Cooks 2011-03-26T15:00:17Z

Perhaps most tellingly, hip-hop is actually more tolerant now: more understanding of its intra-genre quarrels, more available to different participants, more open to sonic invention and revision. How Do You Capture Four Decades of Hip-Hop? Very Broadly. 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

The only hip-hop contender currently up for album of the year is Drake’s “Views,” a sales and streaming juggernaut that simply couldn’t be ignored at an industry soiree like the Grammys. Beyoncé or Adele? This year’s big Grammy face-off feels a lot like last year’s. 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

Authenticity, an always slippery but foundational concept in hip-hop, has taken on even greater significance in the internet age. Violent Gang, or Rap Label? Prosecutors Say Young Thug’s YSL Is Both. 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

The action can be said to symbolize struggles of people living with H.I.V., and the choreography infuses hip-hop movement with powerful dramatic content. The Week Ahead: Dec. 25 ? 31 2011-12-25T00:22:25Z

Her father worked in marketing and promotion for radio stations, including WBLS, and for the label Select Records, so she heard plenty of hip-hop and R&B and learned some guitar chords. L’Rain’s Songs Hold Ghosts, Demons and Healing 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

In 2020, no one paying attention would argue with the proposition that hip-hop and rap are the chosen arena for droves of America’s most ambitious creative artists. Review | From Basquiat to ‘Black Panther’: How graffiti went mainstream 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

So it is with "Enjoy," a free download of cloudy-sounding #based hip-hop, a subgenre which provides a sonic parallel to the experience of swimming in information. Album reviews: 'Coexist' by The xx and two more 2012-09-18T16:39:06Z

“Salsa, hip-hop, graffiti are all key parts of the street life of the Bronx,” he said; the South Wing expansion will reduce the boundaries between the museum and the human vitality just beyond its walls. 50 Years of Art in the Bronx 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

“Go-go is not R&B. It’s not hip-hop. It’s not funk. It contains elements of those musics, but it’s its own art form,” Kokayi says. Grammy night is coming — and go-go music finally has a shot 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

“To me, there’s a synergy between the athleticism in circus acts and the athleticism in hip-hop dance.” Spare Times for Children for Aug. 14-20 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

At night, under the lights, the residents listen to local music – racine and kompa – or American hip-hop, drink rum and play noisy games of dominoes. Haiti earthquake: six months on 2010-07-10T10:00:00Z

Mr. Williams, one of the great spoken-word poets of the 1990s and 2000s, recalled interpreting hip-hop songs for acting school auditions. ‘Holler if Ya Hear Me’ Uses Songs by Tupac Shakur 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Routines can include elements of ballet, jazz, hip-hop and other styles; sometimes cheerleading-type acrobatics are worked into a team’s three-minute performance. She Was Given a Deadline, but Married on Her Own Terms 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

The new album features a wide number of sounds: vintage cumbia, Latin American hip-hop. Singer Lila Downs on death, chocolate and a new album that riffs on both 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

“Maybe local television stations think it is too sensitive to run hip-hop shows now,” he added. China takes aim at hip-hop, saying 'low-taste content' must stop 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

Last fall, the British dance company ZooNation rolled out a slate of courses to train hip-hop teachers. At Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop University, Teaching the Teachers 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

His kinship with hip-hop goes beyond sound too. Jack White bridges the genres at Coachella 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

He found a similar following among hip-hop artists like Mac Miller, Raekwon and Kanye West, all of whom sampled his music. Patrick Adams, Master of New York’s Underground Disco Scene, Dies at 72 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

It’s an unprecedented reversal, but it has more to do with the enduring power of hip-hop and the cumulative clumsiness of the Grammys than it does with Lamar’s colossal ambition. The troublesome case of Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy thirst 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Like its American hip-hop counterparts, “May Allah Bless France!” doesn’t soft-pedal the temptations of the thug life. César Winners Fill Roster at Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

He's a hot name in mainstream R&B/hip-hop now, thanks to Drake and Rihanna's "Take Care." Album reviews: 'Coexist' by The xx and two more 2012-09-18T16:39:06Z

Hit after career highlight after hip-hop benchmark roars past, focusing mainly on Watch the Throne, last year's joint album, but taking in significant portions of these artists' solo careers. Jay-Z and Kanye West – review 2012-05-26T23:05:46Z

There are nostalgic “Nutcrackers” and tongue-in-cheek “Nutcrackers” and burlesque “Nutcrackers” and hip-hop Nutcrackers. Visions of Sugar Rum Cherries Tap Dance in Her Head 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

But Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop retelling of the nation’s founding turned out to be one of several shows making for a strikingly diverse, unusually urgent season. ‘Hamilton’ and Company: Tony Award Nominees in a Season That Reflected the World 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

That made a volatile situation even more explosive— until Drake, the hip-hop artist booked for the show, tried to calm things down. ArtsBeat Blog: The Drake Show to Go On at Penn State 2011-11-10T20:20:43Z

Just as she found herself in a creative slump, she was introduced to hip-hop by the American b-boy Marvin A. Smith, also based in Germany. Companhia Urbana de Dança Reflects Brazil’s Complexities 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z

The bill leaned toward rock but included dashes of country, R&B and hip-hop. For the troops on Veterans Day, rough-edged reverence on the Mall

Still, Shakur’s commitment to social justice — and his dramatic life story — distinguish him from most contemporary hip-hop artists. Tupac Shakur Immortalized at Karamu in Cleveland 2010-04-10T03:51:00Z

“I don’t write in the style of Lin-Manuel Miranda,” he said, referring to the author, composer, and star of the current hip-hop musical blockbuster “Hamilton.” Tradition! The Indestructible “Fiddler on the Roof” 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Hosted by Dolores Brunner, the founder of the New York group Empire Line Dancers, the free party will introduce participants to new and classic line dances set to hip-hop and R&B music. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

The rapper Rick Ross, the songwriter The-Dream and Lenny S. of Roc Nation scour Atlanta for unsigned hip-hop and R&B artists in this new competition series. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Kong: Skull Island’ and ‘Signed’ 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

I'm 29, and grew up listening to Public Enemy, a lot of hip-hop. Mash-up king Girl Talk sells out Showbox 2011-03-10T22:40:07Z

The Cairo-based hip-hop group Arabian Knightz released "Rebel," a track about the uprising that included the lines "They killed us, slaughtered us, put us behind bars" and "enslaving us must end." Egypt: First the government, next the arts? 2011-02-14T02:35:00Z

In hip-hop and dancehall, where singles and mixtapes build audiences, the official debut album is less an introduction than a graduation. New Music by Phish, Popcaan and How to Dress Well 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Another under-heralded talent is Lipa’s ability to nail complex syncopations and wordy passages on and around the beat, perhaps owing to her early hip-hop fandom growing up in London, then Kosovo. Dua Lipa’s Unplanned, Uncertain, Unprecedented Album Launch 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

As a Christmas alternative to Nutcrackers and Cinderellas, two of Britain's leading hip-hop troupes are performing. This week's new dance picks 2010-12-18T00:08:34Z

Idris Goodwin’s “Hype Man,” Nov. 10 through Dec. 10, focuses on a hip-hop group struggling with how to respond to a similar tragedy. The Upcoming Flea Season Will Explore Police Brutality and Gun Violence 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

On a recent episode of the breakout Fox series “Empire,” hip-hop scion Hakeem Lyon is not handling his business. I had a thot but didn’t know it was a thing 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

There’s a kind of irreverent joke, of course, in dancing ballet steps to confrontational hip-hop. Review: At City Ballet, More Youthful Invention From Justin Peck 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

A few days earlier, Thug had been in the New York office of 300, where the walls are covered in vintage hip-hop photos of 1980s and 1990s rappers. Weathering Young Thug’s Tornado 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

A stew of several different — and conflicting — strategies for supersize hip-hop songs, “Outlet” is either the sound of a genre in free fall or in free flight. Katy Perry Dances Till the World Ends and M.I.A. Starts a New Wave 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

On her 2008 album, “Hard Candy,” Madonna worked with the hip-hop and R&B producers who dominated Top 40 at the time. Critic?s Notebook: ?MDNA,? Madonna?s 12th Studio Album 2012-03-26T18:12:55Z

Megan Thee Stallion is right behind with six nominations, mostly from her hit song “WAP,” triggering nods for video of the year, artist of the year, best collaboration and best hip-hop song. Justin Bieber leads nominees for 2021 MTV Video Music Awards 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

In “HyperISH,” this multidisciplinary Dutch dance crew harnesses the power and urgency of break dancing, hip-hop and ballet to explore the modern adolescent’s search for identity. Dance Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:46:10Z

And a late-night deliveryman on East 43rd Street was so caught up by the passing tour’s blaring hip-hop soundtrack that he spun and flipped into a virtuosic break-dance routine. Critic?s Notebook: Fasten Your Seat Belts And Embrace the City 2010-10-14T15:49:00Z

One of the most famous hip-hop images is that of Biggie Smalls, wearing a gold crown. Perspective | Nicki Minaj and a stack of pancakes? These rare images capture another side to hip-hop. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

"Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll" joins another music industry series, "Empire," on Fox, an upcoming drama set in the world of hip-hop. FX orders new Denis Leary series 'Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll' 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

Over a hip-hop soundtrack, Cage and Rand go to work. Defenders assemble! The kickass superheroes with no friends and a SuperDonald baddie 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

Henson thought it too camp, plus, as she wrote in the memoir, “hip-hop? Please. Stupid, corny as hell.” Taraji P Henson: 'I'm glad I kept my ego in check' 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

I listen to jazz, a lot of hip-hop, rap. An Artist Who Creates Joyful, Shimmering Images of West Indian Culture 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Funk and hip-hop and rock don’t usually play too nicely with an emotional delivery as unfettered as Cherry’s. Complete Eric B. & Rakim, a Fresh Look at Wire and a Whole Lotta Guns N’ Roses 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

It mostly looks like hip-hop, but it’s deeply idiosyncratic. ‘Hamilton’ choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler delivers a revolution that rocks  2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Kenyans are not immune to the global juggernaut of American popular music and listen to plenty of its genres: pop, hip-hop and rhythm and blues among them. Country Music Finds a Home Far From Home, in Kenya 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Following on ABC’s Nashville and Starz’s Power, Fox launches a much-anticipated music business drama with Terrence Howard as an ailing hip-hop mogul trying to decide who will inherit his record label. 15 Shows We're Curious to Watch in 2015 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

If you’ve endured many classic retreads — “Macbeth” set in Nazi Germany; “The Great Gatsby” spiked with hip-hop — you may be skeptical. Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

To reflect those intersecting histories, Black Artstory is partnering with the dance troupe Hammerstep, whose performances blend traditional Irish dance, tap and hip-hop. Spare Times Listings for Feb. 6-12 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Oakland also happens to be Riley’s hometown; long before he began directing he was primarily known as the frontman for the hip-hop group The Coup. "Sorry to Bother You" speaks the hidden truths of "white voice" out loud 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Ostracized by her friends, she leads an isolated life and seeks solace in hip-hop dance. What’s on TV Saturday: The Eurovision Song Contest and ‘Mum’ 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

"We were trying so hard to break a system," he said, one that ignored a free-thinking population of hip-hop kids obsessed with skateboards and independence. Camp Flog Gnaw churns to Pharrell, Odd Future 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Abraham combined ballet with hip-hop attitude, hybrid style, confrontational tracks by Kanye West and Jay-Z and a melancholy one by James Blake to be utterly contemporary. Review: William Forsythe Brings a New Playlist to Boston 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. West has rendered Simone hip-hop- and pop-friendly by sampling her in songs like “Bad News,” “New Day” and “Blood on the Leaves.” Nina Simone’s Time Is Now, Again 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Moghadam insists that the beef was largely tongue-in-cheek, and that the bluster is just part of the pugnacious hip-hop world. Yale Graduates Seek a Degree in Hip-Hop 2012-11-09T23:36:49Z

For more than a decade, the Drake factory has been operating at full capacity — recalibrating the relationship between hip-hop, R&B and pop; balancing grand-scale ambition with granular experimentation; embracing the meme-ification of his celebrity. Drake Rebuilt Hip-Hop in His Image. Now He Wants You to Dance. 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

To quarrel over whether hip-hop should be given institutional treatment now would be quaint — in just 40 years, it has become bedrock. How Do You Capture Four Decades of Hip-Hop? Very Broadly. 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

She showcased her ability to mix genres — spaghetti western, tragedy and hip-hop — in “Is God Is,” a tale of twins enacting a revenge fantasy. The Creators of ‘On Sugarland’ Build a Site of Mourning and Repair 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

“Miseducation” landed at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart and became the first hip-hop record — there’s only been one more since — to win Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. Expressing Complicated Love for Lauryn Hill as an Iconic Album Turns 20 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

Cardi B, another hip-hop success story, is hanging around, as well. J. Cole Hits No. 1 With ‘KOD,’ Another Streaming Win for Rap 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

"Filly Brown," a contender in the U.S. dramatic competition, tells a story of a rising Hispanic hip-hop artist in Los Angeles and the challenges she faces on the way to fame. Sundance fest embraces hip-hop on stage and screen 2012-01-26T20:13:15Z

For a certain stripe of older fan, the Roots are exceptionalists who embody all of hip-hop’s potential as an extension of the soul music tradition, and who keep hip-hop viable as live performance. Review: Movable Roots Jam Brings a Philadelphia Festival to New York 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

A stupidly talented mixer capable of melding MOR gems, Broadway showtunes and hip-hop breaks, he thankfully also never forgets that a DJ's primary role is to get people dancing. Clubs picks of the week 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

They’re aggregated, along with a heap of new material, on his debut album, “The Chief,” a sometimes fascinating collection of alternate-universe hip-hop and pop from a sui generis character. Jidenna’s ‘The Chief’ Is a Genre-Hopping Debut Album 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

The rappers have reigned for years as the undisputed kings of hip-hop, but if fans were expecting an album of easy good-times and bombast, Mr. Caramanica said, they would be mistaken. ArtsBeat: Popcast: Supergroups A Go-Go 2011-08-12T16:33:36Z

“Party People” fuses hip-hop, salsa, and jazz to probe the legacy of the Black Panthers and the Puerto Rican Young Lords; it served as a collective counterpoint to Schenkkan’s White House-centered take on the sixties. American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Atlanta was already the center of hip-hop innovation when Migos arrived, but the trio was primed for streaming-era success — pulsing with youthful energy, leaning heavily on catchy choruses, collaborating widely. How Takeoff and the Migos Flow Changed Atlanta Rap 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

It was easy to imagine these women winning hip-hop battles. A French Dancer’s Hip-Hop Moves Are Tested in New York 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

David Dennis Jr., a journalism professor at Morehouse College who has covered hip-hop online for close to a decade, said that Mr. Staples’s thoughtful reaction was “extremely unusual.” A Mother Criticizes Vince Staples, and the Rapper Defends Her 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

A separate audition for hip-hop dancers is scheduled for April 14 at 3rd Street Dance, near Beverly Hills. 'Hamilton' musical runs into trouble over 'non-white' casting notice 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Another twist: Instead of simply showing the films in succession, all three will be chopped and mixed on the fly in true hip-hop style by LA-based DJ/producer J. Rocc. Symphonic music meets hip-hop Friday night at Seattle Art Museum 2010-04-29T00:09:00Z

It’s Christmas on Valentine’s Day for hip-hop fans. De La Soul to Release Entire Catalog for Free (But Only for 25 Hours) 2014-02-14T15:02:18Z

Dumile spent more than two decades as one of the most recognizable and beloved artists in underground hip-hop, a rapper known for his unexpected word choices and intricate stacks of rhymes. MF Doom Influenced Scores of Musicians. Hear 11 of Them. 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

Here are 15 songs that you might not know by name, but whose sounds and samples were the building blocks for pop, dance music and hip-hop hits. You May Not Know These 15 Songs. But You’ve Heard Them. 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

The buzz: "Maverick Sabre is the amazing contradiction between cultures and genres: Ireland and England, hip-hop, reggae and folk" – clashmusic.com. New band of the day ? No 978: Maverick Sabre 2011-03-03T17:39:32Z

Billboard said Drake, Taylor Swift, fun. and Don Omar are the top acts in the R&B/hip-hop, country, rock and Latin fields, respectively. Billboard: Adele dominates another year with '21' 2012-12-14T14:28:10Z

The rapper is not nominated for best hip-hop video, though. Beyonce leads MTV Video Music Awards with 8 nods 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

And that reliance on the skills of others, though standard throughout hip-hop, is a problem Drake suffered through especially intensely on his debut LP. Drake's Take Care Was Worth The Wait 2011-11-15T14:00:12Z

This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It’s all hip-hop. Kendrick Lamar, on a Year of Knowing What Matters 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

But that will wane, says Westhoff, and the steps to how we got there, what southern hip-hop was and is, must be recorded. Book review: "Dirty South" by Ben Westhoff 2011-05-09T21:54:19Z

Whether its indie, hip-hop, rock, electro or anything else, if there's soul and talent in there then I'll write about it. Blog jam: All-Noise.co.uk 2013-01-23T14:42:05Z

It also comes just months after Jay-Z, Russell Simmons and other hip-hop figures forcefully supported President Obama after he announced his support for gay marriage. Frank Ocean Draws Praise for Declaring His Homosexuality 2012-07-06T23:47:45Z

I was raised knowing that when hip-hop spoke up, it was always challenged. Angie Thomas Lets Hip-Hop Speak in Her New Novel, ‘On the Come Up’ 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Wednesday's episode of the hip-hop soap — the last installment before next week's Season 1 finale blowout — delivered 14.9-million total viewers, according to Nielsen. Fox hip-hop soap 'Empire' hits all-time high in total viewership 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

This left my husband and me free to enjoy dinner to the beat of all our hip-hop favorites from Biggie Smalls to LL Cool J to Cypress Hill and everything in between. Madrid for Kids? Try D.I.Y. Spanish Immersion 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

But this faceless crew can make all audience members feel seen, no matter their relationship with dance or hip-hop. A Hip-Hop Dance Crew’s Frabjous Reign in Las Vegas 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

“There are very similar problems at a dance-music festival as there are at a music festival for rock ’n’ roll or hip-hop,” said Pasquale Rotella, the founder of Insomniac, which produces Electric Daisy Carnival. A $200,000-a-Night D.J. Known as Kaskade Is Really Ryan Raddon, a Mormon 2011-11-09T23:24:42Z

For instance, "Empire" combines the over-the-top family feuds of a 1980s prime-time soap like "Dynasty" with an original soundtrack from mega-producer Timbaland and a willingness to tackle taboo issues like homophobia in the hip-hop community. With 'Empire,' diversity becomes the watchword on television 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

The production’s hip-hop aesthetic of sampling flaunts its freedom and wit with a range of allusions. Review: A Hip-Hop Take on Shakespeare’s Star-Crossed Lovers 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Riley, a young man specializing in the local form of virtuoso hip-hop footwork known as jookin, had started taking ballet lessons to gain strength and extend his range. Jookin in Memphis, Celebrated 2012-11-18T04:50:46Z

In the 1990s and into the mid-2000s, it was the New York hip-hop concert of record. Review: Only Suspense at Summer Jam Was Outside the Stadium 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Simone Eccleston, who was appointed to help develop the hip-hop season with the rapper in March, said that his influence is already being felt. Q-Tip is ready to be the Kennedy Center’s ‘provocateur in residence’ 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

It's a throwback to the early days of hip-hop, and it revs up an audience still buzzing from Killer Mike's solo set an hour earlier. Pitchfork Festival Day 3: Tree, Foxygen, Killer Mike kick things off 2013-07-22T00:56:00Z

In dance programs across the United States, classical ballet and modern are typically part of the core curriculum, while genres like tap, hip-hop and other street styles are often offered as electives — if at all. At Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop University, Teaching the Teachers 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

West joked, “Actually, the reason all these hip-hop artists like your work is that you’re an artist of color.” James Turrell Takes Up Curating, With a Show by His Hero 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

“Moroccan youth don’t usually dance in public spaces, unless it’s a wedding celebration or Sufi procession,” said Hisham Aidi, a researcher at Columbia University who writes about global hip-hop and cultural policy. Morocco’s D.I.Y. Dance Crews 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

His death rattled the entertainment and hip-hop world, with celebrities posting memories of him on social media. Suspect formally charged in Nipsey Hussle murder, due in court 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Rubin thinks "Paper Planes" was something of a milestone in the hip-hop world, helping force the genre in a new direction after tracks started to become interchangeable. Diplo takes a different kind of path to Grammys 2013-02-08T17:18:09Z

With a heavy hip-hop beat thumping throughout nearly the whole show, you won’t even notice if it’s set to vibrate. Theater Review: ‘Urban,’ at the New Victory Theater 2012-10-15T22:02:33Z

This one-day festival, now in its third year, is organized around the synthesis of hip-hop and R&B with other genres. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Ms. Hemmings channels her knowledge of street and social dances, hip-hop, and dancehall into the multimedia work “We Free,” presented Thursday through next Saturday as part of Gibney Dance’s Making Space series. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Fusing worlds — Hollywood and South Central, the presidency and hip-hop, and so on — is integral to Mr. Davis’s comedy. Critic?s Notebook: Prez N the Hood: A Hip-Hop Parody Stirs Up Issues 2010-10-25T22:56:00Z

Neneh Cherry had international hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when she was a sassy young woman in her 20s, immersed in London’s overlapping post-punk, hip-hop and club cultures. Neneh Cherry at the Highline Ballroom 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

And you could see it one evening this month, when Mr. Miranda — also part of that first Play Group — took the stage of the Greenwich House Theater with his hip-hop improv group, Freestyle Love Supreme. Even Billy Eichner Likes This Guy 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

His Adidas line is a particularly demented hit: the sneakers, adorned with stuffed teddy bears and tiger-striped tracksuits, are a hip-hop take on “Where the Wild Things Are.” Jeremy Scott, Fashion?s Last Rebel 2011-11-30T21:52:06Z

The hip-hop generation now has deep enough pockets in its saggy jeans to exert an influence at the box office. It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z

The crowds were not your typical hip-hop crowds. Rapper Big Boi brings electro sounds to new album 2012-12-11T19:25:00Z

Like hip-hop and grunge, “the look has been normalized,” he said. It’s Always Fishnets Season Somewhere 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

From there, the show traces the sneaker’s ascent; its role in sports, hip-hop and men’s style; and its evolving technology and breakthroughs. ‘Out of the Box’ Explores the Rise of the Sneaker 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

“I didn’t really choose hip-hop, it chose me,” Stretch said. Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito, Hip-Hop Heralds, Are Saluted in a Film 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

The bass line spilled from the Howard Theatre entrance, and the overheads bathed the excesses of hip-hop in high-wattage light. Lonnae O’Neal: The pope and ‘Empire’ bookend a Washington day 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

K.Flay has no black people or hip-hop signifiers in her videos. White Female Rappers Challenging Hip-Hop?s Masculine Ideal 2011-12-23T14:30:39Z

“I applaud them in stretching their tentacles and bringing it back to the nucleus,” said Kevin Liles, the veteran hip-hop executive whose label, 300 Entertainment, distributes Migos’s music in partnership with Quality Control. Rap Trio Migos Cracks the Code to a No. 1 Hit, One Step at a Time 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

There’s little in hip-hop more disappointing than a great rapper with a tin ear for beats. Review: Mac Miller Releases His First Major-Label Album, “GO:OD AM” 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

He opened last year’s competition by saying, “There’s hip-hop, there’s opera, there’s pop, there’s dirge.” Netflix’s ‘Eurovision Song Contest’: Here’s What You May Have Missed 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

It is the ne plus ultra of contemporary hip-hop luxury. Rappers Come Shop for Jewelry. Icebox Turns the Cameras On. 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t the usual paternal doubt—rather, his father was worried that the hip-hop playing field was already too crowded. “Old Town Road” and the Overdue Death of Genre 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

"A lot of the beats are produced hip-hop beats," she said, "but the vocal is very raw and my voice is kind of on top of all the tracks, which is what I wanted." Miley Cyrus talks music, movie and marriage 2012-11-09T13:23:10Z

Carter also embraced hip-hop later in his career, and played on A Tribe Called Quest’s sophomore album “The Low End Theory.” At 85, the Jazz Bassist Ron Carter Still Seeks ‘A Better Order of Notes’ 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

Though image was important to hip-hop from the beginning, the exhibition shows how artists’ ability to manufacture their images changed over the years. MoPOP’s ‘Contact High’ exhibit shows hip-hop’s most influential photos and the stories behind them 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

“Eyes of Love” reached back to an earlier part of the decade, to Isaac Hayes and the like, just as hip-hop and other electronic-based genres were born. ‘Eyes of Love,’ an album of sweet ’70s soul recorded behind bars, resurfaces 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Local musician and producer Erik Blood — who’s worked in hip-hop with Shabazz Palaces and punk rock with Tacocat — plays the High Dive to celebrate his new release “Lost in Slow Motion.” New blood: Polymath Erik Blood releases an optimistic ‘breakup record’ 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Nowadays he’s essentially a Drake clone, as heard on his recent single “Say No More,” and his latest album, “These Days,” which debuted atop the iTunes hip-hop chart in January. White Rappers, Clear of a Black Planet 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

If the Pharcyde were as good at producing new music as they are at conjuring intimacy, these hip-hop veterans might just have a future to boast, as well as a past to play on. The Pharcyde – review 2012-07-19T17:15:01Z

The album’s percussion vacillates easily between’80s-inspired beats and modern hip-hop, which shows Bflecha’s incredible ability to genre hop from blue-eyed soul sounds to synthwave to R&B, while never straying far from new wave roots. From Brazil to Iceland to Korea: Go Around the World In 11 Bands 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

One of the very best things about being old is you no longer have to pretend to like hateful music eg misogynistic hip-hop. Sixty things I've learned since turning 60 2013-04-29T16:53:01Z

In the ’80s, Brooks and Kirkendall changed their company’s name to G Street Express and began launching national tours for young artists specializing in an emerging style of music called hip-hop. Meet the hippie and the beatnik who orchestrated D.C. aural history 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

It was in the “Boogie Down” Bronx, beginning in the late 1970s, that the elements of hip-hop culture were first codified. Weekend Miser: Bronx Rising! at Bronx Music Heritage Center Lab 2013-01-17T18:31:12Z

These are not uncommon themes in hip-hop, but for most rappers, wealth itself is subversive, political. Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next,” Reviewed 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Scored by the Apache - the song that begat hundreds of hip-hop samples - it contrasts archive footage of deprived, destitute 1970s New York with the explosive energy of block parties, breakdancing and graffiti art. Baz Luhrmann to make Netflix musical 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Certainly, Mr. Theodore’s vision of retro — which carries more than a trace of Harlem Renaissance, not to mention André Benjamin from the hip-hop duo Outkast — did not arise in a vacuum. Up Close: The Bearded Dandy of Brooklyn 2011-01-05T01:17:06Z

The group is only the fourth hip-hop act to make it into the hall, but Chuck D. predicted that there would be more soon, citing other influential rappers like L L Cool J and Salt-n-Pepa. Rock Hall of Fame Embraces Randy Newman, Public Enemy and Others 2013-04-19T15:50:46Z

The record was called “Rapper’s Delight” and reached No. 4 on the R&B charts, proving rap was a viable art form and opening the gates for other hip-hop artists. ArtsBeat Blog: Sylvia Robinson, 'the Mother of Hip-Hop,' Dies at 75 2011-09-29T17:57:35Z

Its alumni have also started their own companies, including North Coast, a hip-hop improv troupe that mounts a “Hamilton”-inspired show called “Anybody” at Caveat that tells the story of a historical figure. Instead of Killer Punchlines, Killer Choruses 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

That underdog mind-set has always been central to the hip-hop ethos, but Wale’s eagerness to stomp and blab his way through these riptides sets him apart as the most idiosyncratic rap star of our time. At top of charts, Wale feels underrated — not that there’s anything wrong with that 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

"A lot of the hip-hop stuff and so forth is to try and draw those younger people," Wheeler says. 'Dancing With the Stars' orchestra has its own smooth moves 2010-04-21T23:03:00Z

He lived around the corner from Salt, of the trio Salt-N-Pepa, and grew up obsessed with hip-hop. Lee O’Denat, Whose Hip-Hop Website Caught Many Eyes, Dies at 43 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Finally, it's the Neutral Milk Hotel hip-hop mash-up the world's been crying out for. This week's top five music links 2012-06-08T09:24:00Z

Awards are divided into genres of pop or rock, rap or hip-hop, country and R&B. Nominees compete in categories for favorite artists and best albums. Maroon 5, Taylor Swift win American Music Awards 2011-11-21T01:35:22Z

For a number of Seattle’s R&B singers, some of that exposure has come through sharing stages and studio sessions with local hip-hop artists. Seattle’s R&B scene heats up as a new generation of talents take the spotlight 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

That was the case Friday night at the Anthem, which hosted its first hip-hop concert, headlined by Philadelphia rapper Lil Uzi Vert. Review | Lil Uzi Vert spills his guts in front of an audience of 6,000 teenage fans 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

And Rev Run was one-third of the hip-hop trio Run-D.M.C. in the 1980s and ’90s and is now an ordained minister and reality-­TV star. Watch Rev Run, Danny and Russell Simmons Tease Each Other 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Even their clothing, which appeared to be inspired by 1990s American hip-hop fashion, had a lightness to it. The Ease of Monrovia’s ‘Hipco’ Clubs 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z

In their earliest days, Run-DMC, like a lot of hip-hop artists, would rap over the meaty opening riff of Aerosmith’s original “Walk This Way.” Review | How the crossover hit ‘Walk This Way’ became a major pop cultural moment 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

I'm very thankful for what hip-hop has done for me, for sure. Biz Markie was the "essence of hip-hop": Hailing the rapper who made us laugh as hip-hop turns 50 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z

The music was disconnected from life, and his materialism sounded passé even for hip-hop. Jay-Z and the Politics of Rapping in Middle Age 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

There need to be books about jazz, Bollywood, hip-hop, Latin, ballroom! Arlene Phillips: Why I'm still haunted by Strictly 2010-10-04T07:00:00Z

While almost all of hip-hop — even many locals — have left the sound of vintage East Coast rap to die, he’s one of the few producers working to keep the sound pure and also current. Playlist: Jessica Reedy?s Album, ?From the Heart? 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z

But mixtape sites lost steam as hip-hop artists started to take advantage of another innovation. Mixtape Sites Like DatPiff Propelled Rap. Can They Be Preserved? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

Vikki Tobak’s new book, “Contact High,” is a wondrous tribute to the way hip-hop overturned not just the sound of culture but also ways of seeing. How Hip-Hop Learned to Pose for the Camera 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

The magazine also compiled exposure lists for emerging artists, R&B/hip-hop acts, country musicians, Latin music, Britain and Japan, among others. Super Bowl, Grammys still music's top promotional venues: Billboard 2013-11-15T14:02:41Z

On the one hand, it’s witty and incisive parody, as fluent in Mr. Obama’s tics as in hip-hop manners. Critic?s Notebook: Prez N the Hood: A Hip-Hop Parody Stirs Up Issues 2010-10-25T22:56:00Z

You focus a lot on the Native Tongues collective in the movie—the loose affiliation of various hip-hop acts that included the Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul. Michael Rapaport on His Tribe Called Quest Documentary 2011-10-20T18:16:15Z

Quakers meeting … Geoff Barrow's hip-hop project gathers more than 35 members. Portishead's Geoff Barrow readies hip-hop album 2012-02-08T15:03:22Z

And of course, a remarkable score that blends the rhythms of hip-hop, rock and even Golden Age Broadway. Perspective | As ‘Hamilton’ becomes a movie, suddenly we’re all in the room where it happens 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Lifestyle isn't to blame for all fatal health problems in hip-hop. After recent deaths, health is new priority in rap 2013-05-07T13:50:09Z

Mr. Xu said that “8 Mile” represents the idea that hip-hop isn’t about color. Seoul’s Bumping B-Boy Scene 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

Those hoping for a more focused look at Keef’s skills as a hip-hop craftsman and MC may leave wondering what all the fuss is about. Lollapalooza Day 2: Chief Keef, Frank Ocean, Chili Peppers and an evacuation 2012-08-05T07:02:00Z

But hip-hop would be nowhere without its stylists. Critic’s Notebook: Young Thug’s ‘Black Portland’ Extends His Reputation 2014-02-05T21:42:57Z

It’s also incisive, languorous and deeply felt, a warm bath of studiously relaxed hip-hop and soul. Review: On ‘Malibu’ Anderson .Paak Takes In All That His Surroundings Offer 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

So many hip-hop concerts can be a sonic disappointment, but this is far from the case at Mohawk. Freddie Gibbs at SXSW 2011 - review 2011-03-18T15:50:57Z

They shared some of the resentments and furies of punk, ska and hip-hop — politicized genres by nature — but in their cashmere sweaters and emphatically new-moneyed glamour, they broadcast mixed signals to a mass audience. Almost anarchy: The Style Council and the smooth sounds of sophisti-pop 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

Her father, who is Black, taught jazz and hip-hop. A Ballerina Who Adds to the ‘Palette of What’s Possible’ 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hancock pushed jazz into the electronic age and fused it with genres like funk, hip-hop and pop. Five Artists Honored by Kennedy Center Under Revised Selection Process 2013-09-12T13:59:00Z

Then there's Once Upon a Time in New York, which first aired in 2007 and explores how the city spawned punk, hip-hop and disco. Home Movie Roadshow 2010-08-06T05:44:00Z

The announcement dropped with anvil force on the traditionally hard-edged, not-particularly-gay-friendly worlds of mainstream hip-hop and R&B. Ocean is easily the highest-profile performer in those genres to publicly come out. Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange' 2012-07-13T16:35:00Z

Live hip-hop shows are not exactly renowned for their rigorous discipline and musical precision. Wu-Block – review 2013-01-16T18:18:27Z

At present, the idea of infidelity is very popular in hip-hop. 'Think 2wice' by Seattle's Sax G, Tay Sean, Mikey Nice 2012-06-04T22:38:05Z

Part of moving through that process informed the creation of her second critically acclaimed album, "Traumazine," released in August; it landed in the No. 8 position on Rolling Stone's list of 2022's best hip-hop albums. From Lizzo to Megan Thee Stallion, 2022 was the year of survival for Black women in the public eye 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

And then my high school boyfriend was one of the earlier hip-hop DJs. Nostalgic for the ’90s? Salt-N-Pepa will take you back. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

In the 1990s, crate-digging hip-hop producers began unearthing Mr. Axelrod’s productions and sampling them widely, enamored with their thickness and complexity. David Axelrod, Music Producer Who Bridged Genres, Dies at 85 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The young L.A. hip-hop collective imagined and executed the daylong musical carnival at Exposition Park and delivered some of the day's best sets. Camp Flog Gnaw churns to Pharrell, Odd Future 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

Songs and interviews about local hip-hop he was listening to at 10, 15, 20 and 25 years old are . Macklemore, THEESatisfaction, Shabazz Palaces and fandom 2011-02-10T18:26:06Z

Samples of her recordings were also used by hip-hop vocalists and groups including the Fugees. Obituary: Teena Marie 2010-12-27T17:57:00Z

But with new material as hard-hitting as the choice cuts on Most of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear on No Stamp, old-school hip-hop fans can rest assured that rap’s senior circuit is alive and strong. Public Enemy Still Fighting, Still Fresh 2012-07-27T13:22:16Z

In October, he was scheduled to perform at Rolling Loud in Queens — the first local iteration of the important hip-hop festival series. Remembering Pop Smoke, a Rapper Who Brought Brooklyn to the World 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

An early showing of the series' hip-hop grit, the anthem also serves as its main theme song. Top 10 'Empire' songs and the stories behind them 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

The level of invention on the hip-hop/electronica side is just infinitely higher. Is guitar music on the way out? 2012-06-29T11:40:00Z

Born in Manhattan, raised in Washington, D.C., and now living in Brooklyn, Ms. Wilde uses her days off to pop into the Brooklyn Museum for First Saturdays or to do hip-hop yoga in Union Square. Olivia Wilde Doesn’t Do a Painted-on Face 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

A hip-hop score and largely non-white cast would seem to guarantee it a place in the cultural margins. Patriotism on Broadway 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

From "Sons," "Marauders" is a hip-hop song, with Tacke's baritone "rapping" more like grunge poetry recitation, over piano chords and rock drums. Download this: "Sons" by Tacoma's Josh Tacke 2011-05-25T16:54:12Z

Despite all the competing solo careers in the Wu-Tang Clan, the hip-hop collective is reportedly close to wrapping up a new album, "A Better Tomorrow." Riot Fest only seems like it has every band in America 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Dawn’s sound was singular — rooted in hip-hop but unafraid of softness. Prince Be, Who Infused Rap With Mysticism, Dies at 46 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

“We had everything from modern to postmodern, hip-hop, aerial, cheerleading, burlesque dancers, belly dancing,” said Mr. Paraiso, 67. He Focuses the Eclecticism of La MaMa Moves! 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

I enjoy most types of music but my favorites are pop, hip-hop and indie. Live: Updates from the 63rd annual Grammy Awards 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

Now a hip-hop artist and spokesman for the Make Poverty History campaign, he called the film "almost the story of every person that went into" the refugee camp. Reese Witherspoon finds lessons in 'The Good Lie' 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

The foulmouthed, prolific, shrewd California hip-hop collective Odd Future played seven gigs during the South by Southwest music festival at the group’s peak Internet notoriety and lived up to it as performance artists. Pop and Jazz Concert Highs of 2011 2011-12-28T23:32:40Z

A classic hip-hop tune from when Dre was at his peak. Friction's favourite tracks 2013-04-19T17:00:00Z

Like his visual iconography, G-Dragon’s music — which draws from American hip-hop, R&B and E.D.M. — is like putting ingredients in a blender with no lid. Catch G-Dragon at Barclays Center While You Can 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Simpson trial, gang violence and the rise of hip-hop. History’s engaging new ‘Roots’ is faithful to the original and woke to the present 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

The album, produced by Carlos Niño, recalls jazz precursors like Max Roach as well as hip-hop loops and West African folk drumming. The Playlist: Burial and Laura Marling Slip Deeper Into the Void 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

When hip-hop journalist, social activist and performance poet Kevin Powell moved from New Jersey to New York City at the age of 24 in 1990, he was an unknown aspiring to recognition and achievement. ‘The Education of Kevin Powell’: An activist and ex-MTV star looks back 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

You would never expect to find a banjo in a hip-hop band, but “The Room Where it Happens” just cried for it. The man behind the “Hamilton” sound: Hidden Beatles references, the “hip-hop horse” sample and why if “it’s all computerized, there’s no heart to it” 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

“They challenged the conventions in the music business and made up their own rules about what it means to be world class hip-hop cats.” Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z

"Today, we lost a hip-hop hero and one of its greatest architects," wrote Russell Simmons. NYPD: Hip-hop mogul Lighty found dead in apartment 2012-08-30T19:47:09Z

The book dwells rather too long on the Western classical tradition, and gives short shrift to popular forms like jazz, blues and hip-hop. Voice-overs 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

She grew up in Honolulu studying “waacking, vogue, hip-hop, any street style you could name, I just loved it all so much,” she said. Mothers of Reinvention: The Lab Pivots as Studios Close 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

The company continued to play a part in the early years of hip-hop with a roster that included Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five. Sons of Sugar Hill label founders face tax charges 2012-03-29T21:33:15Z

Bouncing a modern hip-hop soundtrack story behind a story set in the early 1900s feels right, as does the dialogue's modern leanings. Netflix's lush "Self Made" deftly glams up an underexposed history 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

Like Avalanches and DJ Shadow before him, he applies hip-hop production techniques to classic pop and soul recordings, cutting and recontextualising to startling effect. New band of the day: Pablo Nouvelle (No 1,321) 2012-08-01T17:34:48Z

The buzz: "Futuristic hip-hop/soul at its finest." New band of the day - Mr Wesley Johnson (No 1,417) 2012-12-17T17:04:00Z

“We was too cool for Evisus,” said Mr. Kissi, his hair fashioned into a field of twists and knots, recalling the dominant hip-hop denim of the day. Pushing the Boundaries of Black Style 2011-08-17T23:25:33Z

“It’s typically a hearing interpreter, particularly a white woman, often interpreting hip-hop.” The A.S.L. Interpretation of ‘WAP’ Was TikTok Gold. It’s Also a Problem. 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z

Does this mean you'll be going all hip-hop for your next album? One last thing... Justin Bieber 2011-02-26T00:07:39Z

“To be recognized by your country, and to be able to represent hip-hop as an art form is amazing. I’m surprised, grateful, humbled and honored.” LL Cool J becomes the first rapper to be Kennedy Center Honors recipient 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Ordering new hip-hop often means taking a chance because it doesn’t always sell, an employee, Ari Finkel, said, standing among customers bustling around the shop midday on Monday. Drake’s ‘Scorpion’ Is the Year’s Biggest Album. But Can You Find It in Stores? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

For the uninitiated, that means analog synthesizers, instrumental hip-hop and electro beats. New local music by Truckasauras, Nacho Picasso and more 2012-06-01T02:31:17Z

I was very inspired by hip-hop and rap but I loved pop and always wanted to be involved in those genres. J.R. Rotem on Producing Hits for Gwen Stefani and 'Empire' 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

BET produced a similar series last year, when it adapted classic hip-hop songs like Notorious B.I.G.’s “I Got a Story to Tell” and N.W.A’s “____ tha Police” into narrative films. Dolly Parton Songs to See New Life in Netflix Adaptations 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

After releasing in July one of 2014’s strongest rap albums—“Lese Majesty,” a dense, confounding work that sounds like little else in contemporary hip-hop—Shabazz Palaces caps its year with this show. Your New Year's Eve in Seattle music: Shabazz Palaces, Beat Connection and more 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Steve Gillett The and Kanye West collaboration Watch the Throne was arguably the biggest hip-hop superstar collaboration ever – and the pair were rewarded with three gongs at the on Sunday night. Grammys 2013: three gongs for Jay-Z and Kanye, but Frank Ocean misses out 2013-02-11T08:40:00Z

One with guns, drugs, wealth, sex and preferably a premature death, one that perpetuates the notion that hip-hop and crime are the only career choices for young African-American men? It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z

Social issues, he said, should be just as much a part of the discussion around hip-hop as the music itself. Q-Tip is ready to be the Kennedy Center’s ‘provocateur in residence’ 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Next, she formed a synth duo with a female drummer inspired by 90s R&B and hip-hop, after which she decided to go solo. New band of the day – Dena (No 1,335) 2012-08-21T16:01:51Z

The art form here is the dance genre jookin, a virtuoso hip-hop descendant of the Gangsta Walk. All Jooked Up With Everywhere to Go 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

He's better at playing the hip-hop troubadour, as he does on Look What I've Done, his latest single. New band of the day ? No 978: Maverick Sabre 2011-03-03T17:39:32Z

Do you worry about Jay and Kendrick splitting the hip-hop vote for album of the year? Jay-Z’s Producer No I.D. on the Grammys: ‘Urban Culture Is Now Pop Culture’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

He helped set the blueprint for contemporary polyglot hip-hop taste, taking cues from the traditions of New York, Los Angeles, the Midwest and the South. ASAP Yams, of ASAP Worldwide, Bridged Hip-Hop Regions and Generations 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Because of Jay-Z, it's become a thing to use my name as a metric or standard for consciousness in hip-hop. Talib Kweli on hip-hop, Rudy "Ghouliani" and how Kanye West can make amends for supporting Trump 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Acclaimed Liverpudlian menswear designer Christopher Shannon is one such product of the 90s whose lauded SS12 collection, a myriad of geometric prints and rucksacks, is hugely reminiscent of Brooklyn hip-hop from that era. Stone Roses, Trainspotting and the grunge look: the 90s revival is here 2012-02-11T13:17:39Z

For me, as a teenager, hip-hop was how I saw myself when I didn’t see myself in books. Angie Thomas Lets Hip-Hop Speak in Her New Novel, ‘On the Come Up’ 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Part two is soon to follow, and the complete deserves to reach an audience far beyond hip-hop trivia fans when it's released on iTunes, DVD and Blu-ray later in the year. YouTube stars: the memes fight back 2011-08-25T20:59:01Z

What hip-hop needed to stand on its own fully was a sonic jolt, a sound that would give it escape velocity out of disco’s orbit. Larry Smith, Hip-Hop Producer, Dies at 63 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

I’m so glad he’s nominated, because it’s a win for hip-hop music. Khalid, the Teenager With 5 Grammy Nominations: ‘They Got It Right This Year’ 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Yet her success hasn't shielded her from the same inescapable pattern of violent misogynoir rampant in hip-hop. Megan Thee Stallion's victory: A rare win in 50 years of hip-hop, violence and misogynoir 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z

His band, Orleans Avenue, plays marathon, danceable sets that intersperse his own tunes with anything from “St. James Infirmary” to hip-hop. New Year’s Eve: A Procrastinator’s Guide to Music and Comedy Shows 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

A lot of times when people say they love hip-hop, I say, "Well, do you love Black people?" As hip-hop turns 50, Chuck D praises its power as "a worldwide cultural experience and religion" 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

Fans of disposable income — earning it, spending it, rapping about it, listening to someone rap about it — had much to cheer during this concert, the highest-profile hip-hop show ever at Carnegie Hall. Music Review: Jay-Z Headlines a Concert at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-08T17:43:12Z

“I think hip-hop has a very disposable attitude because it has a very disposable sense of self,” Jenkins says. Hip-hop was poised to conquer fashion. Why did it stop short? 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Thanks to hip-hop, Bally was one of the first brands I coveted in the 1980s. Is Bally More Interesting Than Gucci? Depends Who’s Tweeting 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Often hailed as one of the greatest rappers of all time, he was a magnet for controversy during his life, and became a martyr for hip-hop militance after his death. Tupac Shakur’s Volatile Life, Delivered by Friendly Hands 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z

Jay-Z’s run of eight shows and involvement may cement it as a popular hip-hop stage. Barclays Arena Rivals the Garden’s Glow 2012-09-27T16:12:33Z

Massively successful – the biggest debut in hip-hop history. 50 Cent: ‘Bankruptcy wasn’t a big deal for me’ 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

In this delight of a musical comedy, the dancing is integrated from beginning to end as the movement switches between hip-hop and musical-theater forms. There’s Great Dance on Broadway. Hello, Tony Awards? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

From funk to samba to hip-hop, it's all being featured as the opening builds toward the entrance of athletes from around the world. The Latest: De Lima lights the Olympic cauldron 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

Gucci Mane may not have had the best hip-hop album in 2010, but the rapper who often finds himself in trouble certainly produced his most impressive disc with "The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted." 9 of the year's best overlooked albums 2011-01-07T22:04:04Z

“No galleries, to me, have accepted hip-hop to be a part of their DNA.” In the Cradle of Hip-Hop, a South Bronx Gallery Bridges a Gap 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Drake, one of the most buzzed-about figures in hip-hop, released his album “Thank Me Later” on Tuesday; it is expected to sell up to half a million copies in its first week. After Drake Show Shut Down, Police Look Into Security 2010-06-16T22:42:00Z

At his death Mr. Fanaka was working on his eighth film, a documentary about hip-hop culture. Jamaa Fanaka, Film Director, Dies at 69 2012-04-12T23:46:44Z

But that elides the somewhat sticky question of what hip-hop should do. Pitbull Moves Beyond Hip-Hop and Into the Unknown on ‘Climate Change’ 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Twelvy is leading a small group who are bouncing around in a car listening to Harlem hip-hop icons the Diplomats. A$AP Rocky: 'We're grungy but we live like rock stars' 2012-06-01T23:04:00Z

In hip-hop only New York, cocky and accomplished and obstinate, casts a shadow this long. Critic?s Notebook: ASAP Rocky, New York Rapper With a Hint of Elsewhere 2011-10-12T22:28:45Z

What musical theater buff paging through Ron Chernow's biography of Hamilton would have come to the end of the book and exclaimed, "This has got to be a hip-hop musical!" Tonys 2015: Meet the biggest hit maker on Broadway 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

He recently complained about the expectations accompanying major pop and hip-hop releases. Kanye West will go on tour, says Yeezus co-producer 2013-06-19T09:40:12Z

“We were developing the concept and we said, ‘Let’s focus on hip-hop.’ The Ephemeral Soundtrack of a New York Summer 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Those slanted rhythmic strategies, indebted to progressive hip-hop production, didn’t throw off Mr. Lloyd any more than the rolling, continuous energies of the set, which left few breaks for applause. Review: Charles Lloyd Returns to the Village Vanguard 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

He was referring to Rennie Harris’s “Exodus,” a searing work that uses hip-hop to explore struggle and resilience: It ends with the sound of a gunshot. This Is a Protest Dance: Alvin Ailey Performs to Beyonce’s ‘Freedom’ 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Muhammad, a member of legendary hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, happened to be working on a project with Young, whose previous work includes the soundtrack for the Adult Swim animated series “Black Dynamite.” LISTEN: “Marvel’s Luke Cage” and “Westworld” composers break down their shows’ signature sounds 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

Party with huge hip-hop stars in the Bahamas — but for real, this time. Adults-only cruise hosted by DJ Khaled to feature performances by Cardi B, Post Malone 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

While the emergent sound of Cuban hip-hop provided a topical spin on the crisis, Desandann reached back to the resistance songs of their ancestors as a more oblique form of comment. The Creole Choir of Cuba: the a cappella aid agency 2010-08-19T21:15:00Z

For the finale, the dancers high-stepped their way off the stage to the sounds of the Florida duo Black Violin, who, fittingly, mix hip-hop with classical violin and viola. The Top 10 Moments of Paris Fashion Week 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

In his own career he saw hip-hop through all its stages of success. An Appraisal: Chris Lighty, Hip-Hop Manager, Changed Music 2012-08-31T16:55:02Z

And so whiteness, as it’s rendered now in hip-hop, is mostly implicit: draw too much attention to it, and risk being excluded. White Rappers Paying Homage to the Past 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z

As with all cultural revolutions, punk and hip-hop were at their most dangerous and fascinating in the beginning. Punk, hip-hop and rock are the focus of new photobooks 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Caleb Teicher is among the more promising, though his number on Thursday was no more than a cute sketch, not improving upon a Fred Astaire recording by adding a weak remix and some hip-hop moves. Review: An Anemic Tribute to Tap Dance History 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Raised in Harvey, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, she grew up dancing hip-hop, popping and locking with her mother, an actress and former break dancer, learning to twerk in her grandmother’s backyard. Keke Palmer Breaks Out Her Hip-Hop Dance Moves 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

“That record was done for hip-hop after about 45 seconds,” rapper Chuck D tells Edgers. Review | How the crossover hit ‘Walk This Way’ became a major pop cultural moment 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

Attendees identified hip-hop songs by their first few seconds and answered questions about local landmarks and civil rights heroes. Trivia Found a Way in the Pandemic 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

Jay-Z is the top contender with five nominations; he's also up for best male hip-hop artist. Jay-Z, Beyonce to compete at 2010 BET awards 2010-05-18T20:24:00Z

Rico London is not the barber’s real name, as it happens, and he is not truly an Official Celebrity Barber as his business card suggests, although he does have a following among hip-hop musicians. The Gimlet Eye: Haircuts From the 1980s Are Back 2010-06-17T01:39:00Z

It stems from the same culture as US hip-hop, but the way we dress, the way we speak, the way we perform is so different. BBC Sound Of 2015: Stormzy 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

This soapy crime drama is beloved by the hip-hop community. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Così Fan Tutte’ and ‘Power’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

Subsequent attempts to cash in on hip-hop, such as Breakdance the Movie and its sequel, or even Flashdance, concentrated on the visual aspects: the dancing and the graffiti. It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z

Bored at school, but always an avid reader, she discovered hip-hop through a part-time job in a music shop, and began to rap. January Stages: In Your Seat but on Your Toes 2014-01-02T23:10:17Z

Coolio, the West Coast rapper whose gritty music and anthemic hits like “Gangsta’s Paradise” helped define hip-hop in the 1990s, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. Coolio, ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ Rapper, Dies at 59 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

In late November, Mister Cee, the prominent hip-hop D.J., unexpectedly announced his second resignation in little more than a year from Hot 97, the influential New York station where he worked for 21 years. The Hip-Hop D.J. Mister Cee Spins On After Quitting Hot 97 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

Together they came up with a local Capetown hip-hop, in English and percussively guttural Afrikaans. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

Just as “Seinfeld” transformed life’s little irritations into big laughs, “The Album About Nothing” transmutes Wale’s anxieties about celebrity, artistry, romance and race into radio-grade hip-hop. At top of charts, Wale feels underrated — not that there’s anything wrong with that 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

He and his wife, Judie Worrell, had long contended that he did not receive what he had earned for the songs he wrote in Parliament-Funkadelic and for their later use as samples in hip-hop songs. Bernie Worrell, Whose Keyboards Left an Imprint on Funk and Hip-Hop, Dies at 72 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

“Politics is just how you look at the world,” proclaims Boots Riley, the frontman of Oakland’s politically radical hip-hop group The Coup in “The Boombox Collection: Boots Riley,” a Salon Films documentary selection. Music for the underdog: Oakland's Boots Riley leads working class hip-hop movement 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

To see them spit their menacing brand of hip-hop felt like a crossover moment. Conway the Machine’s new album caps Griselda’s rise to prominence as one of rap’s essential crews 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

A hip-hop duo of the rapper Residente and the producer Visitante, Calle 13 was backed by a large band for grooves that fused Latin American rhythms, hip-hop and even some hard rock. The Best Concerts of 2012, as Seen by Times Critics 2012-12-26T23:38:02Z

But necessity is the mother of unlikely collaboration, and rappers with rough voices are increasingly finding dance music to be far more hospitable than hip-hop. Critic’s Notebook: Growlers Finding a Refuge in Dance 2014-04-23T21:55:54Z

“It felt like he was ripped away from the hip-hop world and the community that made him,” Madden added, noting Shmurda’s obvious showmanship, which was apparent even when she and Carmichael interviewed him in prison. Bobby Shmurda’s New Lust for Life 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

“The Last Dance” was jointly produced by multiple companies, and Hehir said “there were certain partners who thought there was too much hip-hop in this.” Rap Soundtracks the Michael Jordan Doc. The N.B.A. Wasn’t Always That Way. 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

Due to their success on the pop and rap charts, Drake and Cardi B earned nominations in both the pop/rock and rap/hip-hop categories. Taylor Swift, Cardi B set for American Music Awards 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

Hosted by the classically trained composer and hip-hop enthusiast Cole Cuchna, this podcast examines landmark rap and R&B albums with a combination of academic rigor and fanlike zeal. Art, Music and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

For me, hip-hop is like a telescope, and the topics I discuss are like celestial bodies and galaxies. Hip-hop professor looks to open doors with world’s first peer-reviewed rap album 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Before Mr. Vives was joined by Mr. Anthony, a New Yorker, he shared a song with fellow Colombians: the pop and hip-hop group ChocQuibTown. Latin Grammys Wait for Obama, Then Quickly Move On 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

To say that “Coloring Book” boasts an old-school flavor doesn’t mean Chance and his band went back 30 years to Grandmaster Flash and other hip-hop pioneers. 7 reasons why Chance the Rapper is a star 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

French fans revelled in jazz in the 1920s, when it was still shunned in the States, and hip-hop found a welcoming home in France some sixty years later. The Music of Malcolm X 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile the action resumes on Monday night at 9 as the squad investigates the owner of a hip-hop record label after one of his artists and six bystanders are gunned down. The Week Ahead: July 10 ? 16 2011-07-07T20:15:40Z

It's interesting how later on in hip-hop culture, the car becomes even more tethered to one's identity. From the "Green Book" to Buicks, PBS' "Driving While Black" examines the history of Black mobility 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

“They told me, right off the gate, get the party started,” said Ahmir Thompson, the D.J. and drummer of the hip-hop and soul band the Roots. For Office Workers, Lunchtime Dance Parties 2013-05-08T21:40:27Z

“I honestly did not know what hip-hop was,” she said, but she began choreographing, and the group became “super, super popular.” A Genre-Spanning Choreographer Who Says Yes to the Unknown 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

If you couldn't deal with the throng or afford a ticket over the weekend, maybe you caught local hip-hop at HG Lodge or electronic music at Vermillion. Capitol Hill Block Party 2011 wrap-up: the big picture 2011-07-25T17:43:06Z

Hussein Fatal, a rapper who rose to fame in the 1990s through his collaborations with late hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur, died in a car accident on Saturday. Tupac Collaborator Hussein Fatal Dies in Car Accident 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

Rockers The Black Keys are scheduled to perform, as are fun. and hip-hop singer Wiz Khalifa. Music takes center stage at MTV Movie Awards 2012-05-29T10:02:14Z

Under the aegis of the Philharmonic, Los Angeles has the biggest Venezuelan-inspired initiative, enrolling some 500 mostly minority children in two neighborhoods where music is more likely to mean hip-hop than Hayden. LA takes baton as flagship for youth orchestras 2011-11-13T16:03:17Z

But acoustic hip-hop, in the home of English traditional music? Chris Wood and Dizraeli ? review 2012-05-21T17:15:01Z

Like Jean-Jacques Rousseau set to a hip-hop beat, Craig Grant offers his confessions in “A Sucker Emcee,” produced by the Labyrinth Theater Company. ‘A Sucker Emcee,’ a Rhyming Autobiography 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

The diversity in Hill's artistry will forever be a part of hip-hop and pop history. "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" turns 25: A tribute to the album that refined hip-hop and feminism 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z

And it's true for any kind of music being made nowadays, whether it's an acoustic record or a metal record or a classical record or a hip-hop record or whatever. The secret to Jim James’ solo album “Uniform Distortion”: “Turn off your phone and open y... 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

This vibe included a heavy reliance on Black culture, starting with a Y7 branding tagline, “A Tribe Called Sweat,” prominently featured on walls and merchandise: a play on A Tribe Called Quest, the hip-hop group. On the Latest Boutique Fitness Playlist: Black Lives Matter 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

The choice instantly reoriented her music, sidelining its connections to pop and framing it squarely in a lineage of Southern black musical traditions from New Orleans second line marches to Houston’s chopped-and-screwed hip-hop. Review: Beyoncé Is Bigger Than Coachella 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

As with last year’s festival, hip-hop will play a small part in the programming. ArtsBeat: Blue Note Jazz Festival Returns for a Second Year 2012-04-25T17:33:47Z

DJing on his kitchen countertop Saturday night, hip-hop journeyman D-Nice drew an audience of 100,000, each of their Instagram handles floating up the screen as they tapped into the live stream. Perspective | This is what our nightlife sounds like in a pandemic 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

That constant elasticity is part of what grounds Mr. Harris’s dances, where nothing is brittle, and the history of hip-hop — in the joints and the limbs — lives on in an unceasing groove. Rennie Harris Puremovement and ‘A Batalha do Passinho’ 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

A place where the bass of dancehall and reggae merged with hip-hop and old-school R&B; a place where one can smell curried goat and jerk chicken alongside fried chicken and catfish. Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

The pod discuss the state of festivals, where guitar bands are at, and the rise of underground hip-hop and R&B. So here it is … Merry Christmas … And thanks for listening. Music Weekly podcast: Justin Young of the Vaccines sits in – and ZZ Top get a chorus of approval 2012-12-20T12:41:16Z

The station will fill Sunday’s 6-9 p.m. slot with a second new program, “Soul Sounds on Sunday,” which will play classic soul, funk, R&B and hip-hop. Do you want to be a DJ? KEXP revamping weekend lineup and looking for on-air talent 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

It proved a natural fit with hip-hop, a self-referential art form obsessed with status, class and gilded accessories. Art: Rashaad Newsome, Blending Hip-Hop and Heraldry 2011-10-20T20:08:10Z

The security guard was working the door at the premiere party, and right away, my man saw the connection between the pontiff and Lucious Lyon, patriarch of the show’s hip-hop dynasty. Lonnae O’Neal: The pope and ‘Empire’ bookend a Washington day 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Both artists’ tastes and sound palettes are far-ranging, taking in hip-hop, jazz, R&B, punk and soul. Little Simz’s Big Moment 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

The genre-blurring group has morphed through a dizzying variety of iterations, touching on hip-hop, jazz, funk and spoken word. Standing on the Corner Is a Music Collective That Won’t Be Pinned Down 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

For today's generation of L.A. hip-hop, who grew up after the ravages of violence depicted in '90s gangsta rap, the kind of tumultuous lifestyle embodied by Knight was something to flee. Suge Knight remains stuck in a gangsta rap past 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

Definitely the Internet and the fact that everyone in the world has access to everything has opened up the doors for hip-hop in general, as far as being a female or being homosexual, you know? Hip-hop’s sexual coming-of-age 2012-08-02T14:35:00Z

But hip-hop was the most in your face. Think bling as Mongolian youth rap away their cares 2013-03-04T03:50:38Z

Chet Hanks, the rapper son of Oscar winner Tom Hanks, not only receptively used the N-word on social media but defended its use because he believes it "unifies the culture of hip-hop across all races." Tom Hanks' son Chet defends his use of the N-word 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Swap out the hippie vibes for mayhem, the mud for asphalt, the social conscience for an air of hooliganism, the graying artists for fresh-faced ones, the country and roots music DNA for hip-hop and punk. The Week Ahead: April 24 ? 30 2011-04-22T14:36:40Z

That was way back in the ’90s when many in the music business felt hip-hop wouldn’t last. WATCH: Darryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels on hip-hop’s official dominance 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s rightfully lauded hip-hop musical “Hamilton,” which has just opened on Broadway after a smash run at the Public, is about many things, among them men: how they fight, write, rule, and duel. The Women of “Hamilton” 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Eclecticism can be tricky, but the Bays succeed by corralling their industrial breakdowns and hip-hop vocal samples into a coherent, singular aesthetic: a collage of familiar sounds arranged in an unfamiliar way. The Bays vs Stereo MCs 2010-04-18T21:30:00Z

“He classed up this whole hip-hop thing,” Ms. Henson said of Mr. Howard. The Cast and Director of ‘Empire’ Discuss Their New Show 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Pandora is set to the bartenders’ taste, which on a recent weekend would be best classified as easy-listening hip-hop and rap. Boîte: Jackbar in Williamsburg 2014-03-12T23:09:37Z

As New York classicists were holding their ground, the rest of hip-hop looked on, amused, and kept working, taking in outside influences and building their own sounds. Critic?s Notebook: ASAP Rocky, New York Rapper With a Hint of Elsewhere 2011-10-12T22:28:45Z

From California, Death Grips have about the same relationship to hip-hop as Bad Brains did to hardcore punk and reggae: strong but supremely flexible. This week's new live music 2013-04-27T05:00:19Z

In reply, Mr. Banks said that hip-hop was the sound of the now, while techno was concerned with the problems of the future, which was its own kind of agitation. Underground Resistance Speaks of Music and Politics 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Seattle rap duo Sleep Steady is operating in the hip-hop underground now, but all indicators point to a strong career ahead. Rap duo Sleep Steady’s fans are wide-awake 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

He is already among the most reluctant of hip-hop stars, almost never photographed with his eyes engaging the camera. Travis Scott Meets McDonald’s (It’s Lit!) 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Rap and hip-hop altered the musical soundscape audibly and visually with shrapnel impact from many different directions. Public Enemy's Chuck D still fighting the power 2010-03-13T03:02:00Z

Its songs aren’t stand-alone pop or hip-hop; they’re determined to advance the plot with knotty specifics, and the production doesn’t try to make Broadway music into radio fare. Debating ‘Hamilton’ as It Shifts From Stage to Screen 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

Once you look past the Lizard King nightclub and hip-hop graffiti, it is easy to imagine astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus walking the same streets. Krakow has history, culture and shops. Up the river, so does Torun — minus the crowds. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

What characterizes these newer players are an instinct for mixing and matching musical genres, particularly hip-hop and R&B, an eagerness to defy gender norms, and often a quirkier presence that young fans respond to. Pop Music Makes Way for the Post-Diva Star 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

To be fair, it's an improvement on the initial plan: a hip-hop parody filmed at their local lido. Why we're watching… Alt-J 2012-07-21T23:05:23Z

Ukraine will be represented by Kalush Orchestra, which organizers describe as a “hip-hop band with a fondness for folk.” Russia booted from Eurovision Song Contest over Ukraine 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

That and the cool kids and hip-hop stars who frequented the Tunnel, an iconic New York City nightclub in an old freight terminal, back in the 1980s and ’90s. Zadig & Voltaire uses iconic nightclub at NY Fashion Week 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

The musical deploys the language of hip-hop to interpret America’s founding as an immigrant tale. What those 11 Tony Awards for 'Hamilton' mean for Broadway and the art of theater 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

But it's the talking heads who make this syllabus engrossing, the most compelling of whom, hip-hop performer/producer KRS-One, is engaging, discerning and passionate. "GhettoPhysics" an awkward but sharp-eyed mashup 2010-10-06T01:14:00Z

It went on to become the first hip-hop album to top 5 million sales while bridging the chasm between rock and rap. Beastie Boys' Adam 'MCA' Yauch dead at 47 2012-05-04T19:35:00Z

The music follows suit, with fat hip-hop beats often thumping below the familiar tunes. Updated ‘Oliver!’ goes a bridge too far 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Dixon didn’t speak publicly about the incident for more than two decades, fearing that challenging the “godfather of hip-hop” would amount to a betrayal of her community. ‘On the Record’ Review: A Black Woman Says ‘#MeToo’ 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

The soundtrack is packed with classic hip-hop from Slick Rick, LL Cool J and Scarface, and there is a surprising cameo from DMX, who displays a Will Ferrell-level of commitment to his bit. Chris Rock and Questlove Talk the Greatest MCs of All Time and Collaborating on New Movie 'Top Five' 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

It was the mid-’80s, and hip-hop and oversized clothes were the styles of the moment. John Leguizamo: The First Time I Faced a Hostile Audience (Kids) 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Now, however, a plethora of hip-hop projects are in the works. Straight Outta Hollywood: how hip-hop saved the biopic 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

"His sound is the sound of Power 106, and the sound of hip-hop right now." DJ Mustard sets the beat for mainstream hip-hop and R&B 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Kelly was vital — in that era, R&B wasn’t yet a hip-hop footnote. Review: On ‘Free TC,’ Ty Dolla Sign Delivers Off-the-Cuff R&B 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Pop Smoke emerged last year as the first breakout star of Brooklyn’s growing drill rap scene with the hits “Dior” and “Welcome to the Party,” which became the ubiquitous hip-hop song of the summer. Rapper Pop Smoke Is Dead After Los Angeles Home Invasion, Label Says 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

The video — a black-and-white affair directed by Hype Williams — was filmed at New York’s hip-hop meeting ground the Tunnel, where Funkmaster Flex held court on Sunday nights. DMX: Hear 10 Essential Songs 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Similarly, Mike is at home, spending the sort of time with his wife and children that a multi-decade life as a traveling hip-hop performer so often doesn’t allow for. Run the Jewels return, right on time 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

More likely, Billboard was wrestling with the discomfort of a black teen-ager with a hip-hop stage name succeeding in the world of country music on a lark. “Old Town Road” and the Overdue Death of Genre 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

But hip-hop’s outlaw mythology has always been strong; because of that, among other reasons, the self-cleaning of suspected abusers that has swept through other industries hasn’t yet taken hold in hip-hop. Two SoundCloud Rap Outlaws Push Boundaries From the Fringes 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

In “All About the Hamiltons,” Rebecca Mead speaks with Lin-Manuel Miranda about “Hamilton,” his inventive hip-hop musical based on the Founding Fathers. Sunday Reading: American Playwrights 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

But the only people who love digging through old crates of records more than he does are hip-hop heads in search of some legendary break beat. Jack White bridges the genres at Coachella 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

But this hip-hop sideshow cuts valuable gig time, and Drew is forced to rush the encore. Plan B; Clare Maguire ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

Over the past decade his list of collaborators has been both long and broad, spanning hip-hop, R&B, dance music and Latin music across the Americas. New Music: Albums by Pitbull, Keyshia Cole and Kurt Rosenwinkel 2012-11-19T22:50:42Z

The deal is similar to those signed by many hip-hop artists, in which a well-known rapper will lend his or her name and reputation to a project by giving it a personal stamp of approval. Brooklyn duo Sleigh Bells rings in "Treats" 2010-05-22T00:38:00Z

There, he joined a hip-hop band and made beats on a daily basis. Young composers challenge the Hollywood music establishment 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

What Latin hip-hop has to do with the world of Gotti is open to question, but then you could say the same of Kevin Connolly or Kelly Preston: embrace the fusion. The eight most criminally awful things about John Travolta's Gotti 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Broadway’s powers that be have been trying since “Hair,” nearly 50 years ago, and the “Hamilton” blend of hip-hop with more traditional theater music finally ushers in a new era. Is 'Hamilton' the top Broadway musical of all time? Not necessarily, this expert says 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

The workout is the brainchild of Janet Jones, a former Miami Heat basketball team dancer and hip-hop performer. Vixen workouts fuse foxy cardio fitness with girls’ night out 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

“When it goes there for the hip-hop feel, it really goes there,” Alex Lacamoire, the original music director and orchestrator of “Hamilton,” said in a phone interview about the show. ‘Hamilton’ Is Known For Its Music, but What Did Alexander Hamilton Listen To? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

So the Jabbawockeez have chosen to stay focused on another part of the hip-hop ethos: “peace, love and having fun,” as Paguio said. A Hip-Hop Dance Crew’s Frabjous Reign in Las Vegas 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

Its 10 Grammy nominations yielded five wins, which was a record for a female artist, and “Miseducation” became the first hip-hop LP to take home album of the year. In Praise of the Ever-Evolving Lauryn Hill 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z

It’s a world where hip-hop and techno-rave never happened, but also where ZZ Top and the Clash are no longer on opposing sides. The Songs of Now Sound a Lot Like Then 2011-07-17T01:45:26Z

Like queer art or hip-hop, which invert prejudicial slurs into badges of empowerment, Mad’s defiantly labelled “trash” reclaimed the language of highbrow cultural disdain. A World Without Mad Magazine 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

They were all hits but were also this weird mix of hip-hop and techno. Robyn: Soundtrack of my life 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

She has added hip-hop and West African dance. ‘It’s About Connections’: Alicia Graf Mack Remakes Juilliard Dance 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

What they come up with is watered down: movement that hints at little beyond the flash of a music video or filtered hip-hop. Dance Review: At the Baryshnikov, Cambodian Dreams, Far From Home 2010-06-25T22:29:00Z

It includes exponents of urban hip-hop, melodic rock, retro-country, guitar band anthems and even the power ballad. Is music tribalism dead? 2011-07-23T23:07:50Z

Following the criticism of his promotion team, the singer announced a new hip-hop mixtape called All The Worlds A Stage. Arthur: Promotion team embarrassing 2014-03-24T07:57:31Z

Mostly hip-hop, with bouncy narcocorrido ballads from Jay Z and French Montana. Loco Mondays at Bodega Negra in Chelsea 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

“I don’t like hip-hop, but it doesn’t matter. It means one person doesn’t like it. I support Jason, and I’m glad they brought him in.” This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Several factors are driving the trend, including the unexpected success this season of attention-grabbing programs such as Fox's hip-hop soap "Empire" and ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat" and "Black-ish." Broadcast networks touting diversity, at least in fall pilots 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Although it's always been a feature of the live scene – particularly at the hip-hop shows put on at London's Subterrania in the 90s – it's only now that it seems to be becoming widespread. Street music: Why face-to-face mixtape selling still matters 2011-01-13T22:30:02Z

Mr. Laufman, in New York for the CMJ Music Marathon, fuses snippets of hip-hop, electronic and classic rock songs, well known and obscure, with his own falsetto croon. ArtsBeat Blog: Popcast: 'One Pig' and Wise Blood 2011-10-20T19:39:31Z

But there was a more communal sense of currency the next night at “Party People,” a hip-hop musical about two leftist groups of the 1960s, the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords. Watching Postelection, So Much Feels Different 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Chicago hip-hop artist Rhymefest spoke of a culture that rewards artists who conform to a stereotype. The law remains the same 2011-10-04T19:17:00Z

Eventual accusations that “Royals” was moralizing about hip-hop culture did not necessarily take into account the fact that it was paying studied homage to it — woven into the sonic DNA of the song’s low-blood-pressure, 808-heartbeat. Lorde Opts Out on the Provocatively Subdued ‘Solar Power’ 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

The result will be “a combination of hip-hop- and house-inspired beats made entirely from birds in New York,” he said. For Children Listings for Nov. 6-12 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Mom found him a weekly hip-hop and dance class and soon he was competing nationally. Meet the rising stars of ‘West Side Story’ on Broadway 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

It shows in their comfort with, and relish of, his movement, which in turn underlines Mr. Harris’s longstanding lack of interest in maintaining any sort of hip-hop status quo. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey Dance in ?Home? at City Center - Review 2011-12-03T00:30:22Z

The heart of the work, however, is the dancers' exquisite mastery of hip-hop, from sequences of resonating, Zen-like slowness to whirling revolutions of light and air. Breakin' Convention – review 2013-05-06T16:12:40Z

"I didn't make it in the singer-songwriter world, I came up through the urban world," said Sheeran, who gained popularity through playing in hip-hop and rap clubs in London. British singer Ed Sheeran bringing "A-Team" to U.S. 2012-06-05T21:07:53Z

The 90-minute work illuminates ideas concerning oppression and identity and leads to transcendence; hip-hop music and dance is its language. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

In 2005, the league instituted a dress code that some saw as targeting the influence of hip-hop style on players. Rap Soundtracks the Michael Jordan Doc. The N.B.A. Wasn’t Always That Way. 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

After playing a “great” mostly hip-hop show at the W Hotel, Elizza Beth returned a few months later to open for an indie-rock band. Are Seattle concerts too homogeneous? Some in music scene push for shows that cross musical boundaries 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

Jonzi D and his American fellow compère Grandmaster Caz kept insisting that hip-hop is the most fertile source of invention today. Review: With ‘Breakin’ Convention,’ a Hip-Hop Festival Impresses at the Apollo 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

Listening to hip-hop radio stations — as is true with some reality-TV series — it’s easy to hear opening consonants that make perfectly clear which word has been partly removed. On the Pop Charts, Singing the Unspeakable 2011-03-15T16:00:06Z

Reggae has also been a pillar in the foundation of hip-hop. Jamaica Seeks to Add Reggae to a Unesco Cultural Heritage List 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

It’s a fortunate combination, and his processing of those influences places him at the intersection of several recent movements, particularly the softening of hip-hop and the casual hip-hopification of pop. Critic?s Notebook: Bruno Mars in Ascension 2010-10-05T22:58:00Z

Mr. Lamar is working to purify hip-hop, a genre he hopes to ground in his true experiences of growing up poor, the son of a former gangbanger. Kendrick Lamar on His New Album and the Weight of Clarity 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

By having the guts to do what no one in hip-hop has done before him: Come out in a world that has been historically homophobic. Salon’s Sexiest Men of 2012 2012-11-14T13:22:00Z

I grew up with hip-hop, and that's the way they made hip-hop. Guardian First Album award: Gold Panda 2011-01-27T22:30:01Z

Moreover, his immediate post-SNL plans suggest that he might just be as canny with his career as he is with writing satirical hip-hop songs and spinning a comedy persona. Andy Samberg: a boy who deserves to do good 2012-06-13T10:18:00Z

Mr. George, known for his work on hip-hop and about African-American culture, said he began with no agenda. Misty Copeland on Pushing Ballet’s Boundaries 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

For three decades, her records have moved freely between R&B, hip-hop, rock and jazz, provoking and challenging listeners with experimental forms and overt politics. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

As reported in March, Snoop's 12th studio album sees the 40-year-old hip-hop star trading guns and blunts for dreads and blunts. Snoop Dogg to release reggae album as Snoop Lion 2012-07-23T10:00:00Z

The idiom often resembles, or borrows from, hip-hop style, with isolated movements of limbs and muscles passing like currents through the body. Alvin Ailey Dancers Return Like Conquering Heroes 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Dance music, like hip-hop before it, is accompanied by a very specific and largely organic culture. Are Mega-Corporations and Wall Street Killing Electronic Dance Music? 2012-07-03T13:59:00Z

In this cauldron, women in hip-hop have nevertheless pushed the genre into a female-dominated space, often while being victims of the violence perpetrated on them by their male counterparts. Megan Thee Stallion's victory: A rare win in 50 years of hip-hop, violence and misogynoir 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z

Their albums, like hip-hop albums, have intros that can be skits or manifestoes; rappers, R&B singers and reggaeton acts have guest slots. Critic’s Notebook: New Music by Shakira, Juanes, Enrique Iglesias and Wisin 2014-03-27T20:50:23Z

A boom-bap hip-hop beat sets a brisk pace but there’s an undertow — indifferent piano notes, sustained vocal ahs — that leaves him isolated and suspended, trapped in the nightmare. The Playlist: Kim Gordon Vents and the White Stripes Unleash an Outtake 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

A few years ago, he was moved to explain, over the course of a few dozen tweets, a remarkably contextual history of hip-hop to Iggy Azalea. Q-Tip is ready to be the Kennedy Center’s ‘provocateur in residence’ 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Diaz also helped build awareness among hip-hop stars for one of the signature event series of quarantine: the private Demon Time strip clubs, after-hours distractions for the well-connected. How Hip-Hop Royalty Found a New Home on Instagram Live 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Rennie Harris is a master at using hip-hop vocabulary to both probe and deliver profound pain and profound joy. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Rennie Harris, and Rhode Island-Style Pizza 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

It's an intriguing treatment given the hat's backstory: once an edgy totem of hip-hop culture, now it's worn by everyone from schoolboys to bus drivers. Artist of the week 146: Jess Flood-Paddock 2011-07-14T11:38:47Z

He’s also a member of the hip-hop duo Run the Jewels, which released their fourth album in June. Killer Mike to earn Change Maker Award at Billboard Awards 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

A producer and multi-instrumentalist, Martians is half of the Internet, the adventurous R&B group that began as an offshoot of the cheerfully anarchic Los Angeles hip-hop collective Odd Future. Syd tha Kyd and Matt Martians widen the Internet's connection with 'Ego Death' 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

That “Malibu” so effectively combines these approaches is a testament to his versatility, but also to the album’s production, a slow, slithery mélange of soft-thump hip-hop and spacey soul. Review: On ‘Malibu’ Anderson .Paak Takes In All That His Surroundings Offer 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

He uses a rich mix of movement forms, including hip-hop, West African, contemporary modern and release. For a Young Choreographer, Bed-Stuy Is Home and a Stage 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

“Students of the Asphalt Jungle,” which Mr. Harris, the Philadelphia hip-hop master, created in 1993, is now old enough to be a classic. At Fall for Dance Festival, Ballet to Hip-Hop 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

The network is pinning much of its hopes on "Empire," the hip-hop soap that was a surprise smash earlier this year and will return on Wednesday nights. Comedy no longer central to TV networks' prime-time programming 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

The debut is considered one of hip-hop’s most defining works; a quintessential piece of hip-hop history. Nas: 'It's Not Cool For the U.S. to Look Like Apartheid South Africa' 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

While the results reflected the widespread audience and critical acclaim for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop biography of Alexander Hamilton, they did not quite match the record 12 prizes bestowed on the musical “The Producers” in 2001. ‘Hamilton’ doesn’t hit a record at the Tonys, but dominates the night 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

The murder of Notorious BIG in 1997 began a tumultuous time for hip-hop. Camp Lo – review 2013-03-12T16:48:06Z

After all, snobs dismiss all kinds of pop culture — from hip-hop to sitcoms — but romance novels elicit a special degree of fervent condescension. Perspective | Stop dissing romance novels already 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

Another example of swerving: commissioning a celebration of Ailey’s life for the company’s 60th anniversary from Harris, a hip-hop choreographer, because “nobody would expect that.” Robert Battle on Running Ailey: ‘This Is My Choreography Now’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

It was commissioned by the NoMa Business Improvement District in partnership with Words Beats & Life , a nonprofit promoting hip-hop and art education in the city. Art takes hold in one of downtown’s last gritty spaces — but only for a while 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

This highly physical work for nine pushes the boundaries of endurance with a movement vocabulary that draws on hip-hop, tap, West African and postmodern dance traditions, combined with a punk aesthetic. 7 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

It's not hard to get behind a hip-hop or swing dancer when we're all much more familiar with that kind of expression, but contemporary can be a little artsy-fartsy for the mainstream. Razzle-dazzle time on "So You Think You Can Dance" 2010-06-11T11:20:00Z

Nicki Minaj There is an argument that, of late, mainstream hip-hop and R&B has lost its once zealously guarded edge of originality. Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday 2010-11-22T15:27:00Z

Ranganathan’s enthusiasm for talking about music and life is infectious; even when some guests claim not to like hip-hop, he gently squeezes them until they spill anecdotes. Hip Hop Saved My Life With Romesh Ranganathan: a rapper’s delight 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Then we started doing gigs with hip-hop groups, like opening up for Kurtis Blow, and we just disappeared from the hardcore scene for a while. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z

Bill Adler, a former Def Jam executive and hip-hop author and archivist, said business considerations weren’t the only reason the album failed to connect. ‘Christmas on Death Row’ and a Stormy Season for a Storied Rap Label 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

I know the culture, but I'm also American so I'm informed by rock'n'roll, hip-hop and everything else. How Islamic punk went from fiction to reality 2011-08-04T19:00:01Z

Whether it’s through hip-hop, R&B, Top 40 radio or Internet memes, Drake is a ubiquitous presence on our cultural landscape. Is this the year that African music will conquer the United States? 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Before the shooting, Conway was considered one of the best rappers in Buffalo, a city more known for its hapless professional football team and proximity to Niagara Falls than as a hip-hop hotbed. Conway the Machine’s new album caps Griselda’s rise to prominence as one of rap’s essential crews 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Although N.W.A was just the fifth hip-hop act to be included in the Rock Hall, the group did not perform after its induction, as is customary. After His Induction, Steve Miller Rips Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

Metal and hip-hop feature inevitably, and there is a fine, unstated irony about the violent scenarios of songs like Bombs Over Baghdad resounding in the context of actual frontline warfare. The Great Offices of State | Lizzie and Sarah | Wonders of the Solar System | Jersey Shore and more | Watch this at the weekend 2010-03-20T06:45:00Z

The cable network's Vinyl dug into life at an early-'70s rock label, while Netflix's The Get Down took on the burgeoning hip-hop and disco scenes at the decade's end. FX's Exploration of the Crack Epidemic Falters 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Yet the show, a disconnected suite of mediocre hip-hop routines riddled with baffling elements, seemed less about that process than still involved in it, and at an early, inchoate stage. Illstyle and Peace’s ‘IMpossible IZZpossible’ at BAM Fisher 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Young black people started donning African medallions and African-inspired fashion, while pushing hip-hop into a politically subversive realm of musical expression. In Tupac’s life, the struggles and triumphs of a generation 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

They could make a concession to the Internet—and to the primacy of hip-hop and R. & B.—by awarding Drake’s digital-streaming juggernaut “Views” with Album of the Year. Let’s Imagine a Better Grammys 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Though Madlib is oriented around hip-hop and Hebden centers his sound around electronic dance music, they cite many of the same kinds of older records as influences. How Four Tet Helped Madlib Make Something Totally New: A Solo Album 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

There’s a fair amount of soliloquizing and rhetorical grandstanding, which is also true of Shakespeare, hip-hop and church. ‘High Flying Bird’ Review: A Thrilling Dunk on Capitalism 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

If fans of political song have bemoaned the lack of a contemporary equivalent of Dylan or Nina Simone, Robinson points out, it is because they haven't been listening to hip-hop. Meltdown 2010: An Evening of Political Song; the Duckworth Lewis Method; Seasick Steve 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

On Thursday, prominent hip-hop publication XXL Magazine released its annual Freshman Class list — an always debated roundup of the top hip-hop artists on the rise — with the Seattle breakout earning a coveted spot. Seattle’s Lil Mosey makes XXL Freshman Class of 2019, a coveted nod for rising teen rapper 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

But she also showcased emerging hip-hop artists and other black voices, as well as taking on lesser-known topics such as climate gentrification, or African Americans’ unequal access to the cannabis boom. No more Jimmys on late night: Why we need more women comedians hosting now 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Tonight at the Oscars, we may very well witness something we rarely get to see: hip-hop taking home gold. Common, Eminem, and Three 6 Mafia: A Look At Hip-Hop At The Oscars 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Intermittent music came from the experimental hip-hop group Death Grips, but the main soundtrack was heard in the effort of their bodies and breath — those moments where you felt the intensity of their focus. Review: At Fall for Dance, Resilience Takes Center Stage 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

I read it when I was 15, and that — along with discovering Public Enemy and Afrocentric hip-hop — kind of went hand in hand as a consciousness-builder and creator. Questlove: By the Book 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

What was surprising was the wearer: Theophilus London, a hip-hop artist from Trinidad. Noticed: Culture Hopping in a Fedora 2011-04-29T23:33:25Z

Whether Blackbear is more than a living, breathing index of hip-hop memes isn’t wholly clear on this album, which veers from soulless to clever and back again. Blackbear Is Not Quite the Sum of His Parts on ‘Cybersex’ 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Eventually it grew to incorporate more hip-hop and dance acts. The Appeal of the Coachella Way of Life 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

That was when the country first got its own hip-hop scene – not the most likely thing under the previous communist regime. Eastern bloc rocking: is Jesteś Bogiem the 8 Mile of Poland? 2012-10-09T14:28:30Z

It makes for an interesting look: hip-hop tough meets Eighties glam. A powerful faith 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z

On Jan. 30, he stepped onstage at Madison Square Garden to play hard-rock guitar with the hip-hop duo Run the Jewels. After His Coup With Beyoncé, Boots Strides Out of the Shadows 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

Never mind that Prince Paul is considered a music nerd’s music nerd, best known for his influential studio wizardry with the hip-hop trio De La Soul. Prince Paul Dives Deep Into Music History 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

Psy decided switching genres would be his best bet for another hit with his latest single so he teamed with Snoop Dogg on the hip-hop track “Hangover.” Psy goes for ‘Gangnam’ departure with new single 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

The hip-hop star is one of the central characters in Furious 7, and he’s been an integral part of several of the films along the way, starting with the second release. Wale's New Album Debuts At Number One, 'Furious' Soundtrack Jumps To Number Two 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Skate videos were scored less with punk and rock and more with hip-hop. Jonah Hill Faithfully Re-creates the Raw, Fleeting Years of Skate Culture, in “Mid90s” 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

He went on to help define the west coast hip-hop sound through production work for Snoop Dogg, Eminem and 50 Cent. Dr Dre says Detox will be his final album 2010-11-23T11:56:00Z

“Bangerz” was largely produced by Mike Will Made It, who has brought hip-hop abrasion into pop like no one else in the last couple of years. Fall Pop Music Preview: An Abundance of Rhythms and Styles 2013-09-09T16:03:09Z

Rock the Bells, the daylong hip-hop festival that came to Governors Island on Saturday. Music Review: Hip-Hop History, Recreated by Those Who Made It 2010-08-29T23:06:00Z

Brown says he’s been working on the 15-song collection aimed at empowering young people for two years, with help from his father Jack Brown, who raps as Wildchild in the hip-hop group Lootpack. Q&A: Teen ‘black-ish’ star Miles Brown releases debut album 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

While the crowd was rapt by other acts that covered hip-hop, R&B and reggae songs, they dismissed his homegrown tunes as old people’s music. The Man Who?s Been Taking Trinidad?s Carnival on the Road 2011-03-23T21:33:52Z

Across the street from Rage is Penthouse, another club where on Sundays hip-hop is the music of choice. Jewel's Catch One disco's demise marks era's end for L.A.'s gay blacks 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

“I just wanted to hold myself accountable and hold hip-hop accountable and bring up an issue that was being pushed under the rug,” he said. Stars Align for a Gay Marriage Anthem 2013-06-30T18:10:26Z

Oh, and there’s a hip-hop beat boxer in the mix. An Unlikely Union Between an ’80s Rock Star and a Folk Choir Blossoms in Bulgaria 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

Welcome 2 Houston is a who's who of the Houston rap scene – a major player in hip-hop for over a decade. Ovrld.com's Texas road trip playlist 2013-06-21T23:10:00Z

Other Americans, who recognized the fist pound from hip-hop culture, rolled their collective eyes at the negative interpretation. Obama dropped the mic. And made the pop culture world see politics as cool. 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Well, be honest and say, "Yeah, hip-hop, I don't really dig hip-hop." As hip-hop turns 50, Chuck D praises its power as "a worldwide cultural experience and religion" 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

Add to all of this the ongoing disruption caused by the ways in which hip-hop and R&B mingle. The Grammys Fumble Hip-Hop and R&B. Here’s How to Fix It. 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Singer Katy Perry is being sued by Christian hip-hop stars including Flame, who claim her hit Dark Horse ripped off their track Joyful Noise. Katy Perry sued by Christian rappers 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Deep with bass and woven with synthetic texture, the album offers more evidence of a city in the midst of a grand hip-hop renaissance. Essential Tracks: Vertical Scratchers, Schoolboy Q, St. Vincent, more 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

At that point, the Beasties were a punk band, during an era in New York where hip-hop was still a burgeoning art form. Adam Yauch, ?MCA? of the Beastie Boys, Dies After Cancer Complications 2012-05-04T18:16:04Z

There’s no reason for this work to be kept in a hip-hop box: it’s contemporary; end of story. Dance Review: Sampling New Work One Step at a Time 2011-04-13T00:19:47Z

It's not news that some white blues, jazz, rock and hip-hop musicians have been more readily embraced by mainstream audiences and the popular press than their black counterparts. Elvis Rocks. But He's Not the First 2010-03-12T14:25:00Z

The front door wasn’t an option for these two, who grew up in and around Detroit’s hip-hop scene while harboring an appreciation for ragged Southern-style rock and country. New Music: Kid Rock’s ‘Rebel Soul,’ and Alicia Keys’s ‘Girl on Fire’ 2012-11-26T23:07:45Z

So has a noisy, unfettered eclecticism that encompasses rock, R&B, hip-hop, electro, punk, jazz, gospel and blues. Algiers Blasts Songs of Damage and Redemption on ‘Shook’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

Rapper and hip-hop producer Dr. Dre will also grace the Grammy stage for the first time on Sunday in his first live television performance in a decade, organizers said. Bob Dylan, Dr Dre to perform at Grammys 2011-02-10T19:20:43Z

Tonight Dan Snow introduces this new series in his customary fashion: charging towards camera and gesticulating like he is in a hip-hop video. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 8-12 October 2012-10-08T08:00:00Z

“The End of Eddy,” which runs through Nov. 21 at BAM Fisher as part of the Next Wave festival, is a boy’s survival story, picaresque like David Copperfield but with a hip-hop soundtrack. Fleeing Home, but Not Homophobia 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

It’s not a reggae track, though; it’s slow, minor-key hip-hop, with Mr. Marley’s vocal giving way to a long Wyclef Jean rap about fallen leaders. Review: Stephen Marley Uses His Father’s Roots Reggae as a Springboard 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

In time, the Rock Hall came to embrace other kinds of music, like hip-hop — starting with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, in 2007 — and chart-topping pop singers like Madonna and Janet Jackson. Jann Wenner Steps Down From the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

With creations worn by the likes of Jam Master Jay, LL Cool J and other East Coast heavyweights, the Shirt Kings rose to prominence and helped to embed custom graffiti-inspired artistry into hip-hop fashion. Memorial T-Shirts Create a Little Justice, a Tiny Peace 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Blanco's identity crisis is acted out in front of us, in a show that's as much a piece of Manhattan performance art as it is a hip-hop gig. Mykki Blanco – review 2013-01-29T15:08:34Z

Not only is the singer popular on TikTok but she is a musical inspiration to many new-age hip-hop artists who are pushing forward the resurgence of hip-hop and R&B in the current music industry. "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" turns 25: A tribute to the album that refined hip-hop and feminism 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z

Take Upside: a great UK hip-hop moment released in July, and a Limey cousin to Empire State of Mind, with Michelle Breeze taking the part of Alicia Keys. Kano: Method to the Maadness 2010-08-26T22:59:00Z

With its hip-hop/pop culture-infused treatment of the story of Vietnamese refugees resettling in America after the Vietnam War, it’s not exactly the new “Hamilton,” but it’s not that far off. Stay alive until November 9! Tips for stress relief and self-care during election-pocalypse 2016 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Already hip-hop fans, they saw an opportunity in the city’s booming music scene. Rappers Come Shop for Jewelry. Icebox Turns the Cameras On. 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

What would happen in the dressing room to a player suspected of pursuing a career in hip-hop? Football songs – what's your favourite? 2012-06-06T22:02:01Z

As a youngster, Cooper said, he'd fallen first for hip-hop, then traced it back to its sources in rhythm and blues. In 'Recorded in Hollywood,' Dolphin family's lore crosses over into R&B history 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

But for so many kids, hip-hop is their music, hip-hop is their culture, it speaks to them when other things don’t. Angie Thomas Lets Hip-Hop Speak in Her New Novel, ‘On the Come Up’ 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

It is the kind of tactic once deployed to keep hip-hop as a whole at arm’s length from the mainstream. Music Review: Nicki Minaj Backs Out of Summer Jam 2012-06-05T18:57:16Z

In other words, by current standards 2 Chainz is all liabilities — a known quantity and a work in progress who reveals the seams of hip-hop ambition. Critic’s Notebook: 2 Chainz Is Hip-Hop’s Rising Star 2012-08-15T22:26:48Z

Advertisement “The Breaks” features three friends for whom hip-hop is as much a mission as a career. ‘The Breaks,’ a TV Movie on VH1, Examines the Year Hip-Hop Found Its Flow 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

The danger for an artist who straddles pop and hip-hop like he does is that he might be seen as inauthentic. Drake Surpasses Kanye West, Lil Wayne, and Even the Beatles. What’s Next for The King of Rap? 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

On his most recent album, “New Topographics,” the multi-instrumentalist displays a knack for constructing classical music’s analogue of a hip-hop producer’s beat tape. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Without cracking his monotone, he is able to lure an audience of old-school hip-hop advocates and listeners younger than he. Earl Sweatshirt shows off both sides of his personality at Fillmore 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

It is a golden age of hip-hop television, and for the moment, the standard in soft-focus nostalgia is “Untold Stories of Hip Hop,” on WE tv, hosted by the mellifluous, sometimes cloying Angie Martinez. Four Shows at the Center of a Golden Age of Hip-Hop Television 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

And this: Malikah, a fiery Beirut-raised hip-hop star, describing how she began her career spitting lyrics into a face mask to hide her identity from disapproving conservatives. Asserting Their Fashion Identity in the Muslim World 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

In the post-Macklemore age, scenes like this are only going to become more common: an emergent hip-hop ecosystem of white rappers performing for largely white audiences. Music Review: G-Eazy Shows Two Sides at Irving Plaza 2014-03-28T21:47:04Z

Friends and collaborators since they met as teens, the duo still build their songs together in the same room, and from scratch, challenging each other in ways that aren’t all that common in hip-hop. The sound of the summer? It’s DJ Mustard.

Lindholm grew up fascinated with American cultural exports like jazz and hip-hop, and devoted his early 20s to pursuits like skateboarding and graffiti before enrolling in the National Film School of Denmark. With ‘The Good Nurse,’ a Director Takes on a Serial Killer and a System 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

From RedOne to Afrojack to David Guetta, Pitbull works with producers with a history of convincing American audiences, particularly those raised on hip-hop and R&B, that dance music is an extension of their taste. Music Review: Rootless Rapper Finds His Rhythm 2011-06-22T22:16:46Z

This week in Seattle beats: Chocolate Chuck, Keyboard Kid Seattle is awash in quality instrumental hip-hop right now, or music that starts there and branches outward. This week in Seattle beats: Chocolate Chuck, Keyboard Kid 2012-10-15T17:14:18Z

By hip-hop standards, the 31-year-old Brown is practically an elder statesman -- or a late bloomer, take your pick. Danny Brown finds success by rapping about being broke 2012-03-28T00:18:00Z

The breakfast-cereal aisle of offerings, a little hip-hop with your plank pose, has not pleased everyone. Weed yoga, naked yoga, yoga with goats: Have we reached peak namaste? 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Hernandez, who has often explored the theater/hip-hop continuum as a choreographer, gives such moments a confident stylized physicality: An actor repeating a word will echo the effect with a stuttering, robotic movement. Idris Goodwin’s ‘How We Got On’ at Forum Theatre

Garrett gave hip-hop one more try, using the alter ego Harry Green. His father was a P-Funk star. It took Garrett Shider years to appreciate what that meant. 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

The movements with the Philharmonic — there are five, representing about 55 minutes of the 75-minute performance — feature a wealth of American musical textures, from vintage stride piano to modern hip-hop. The Syncopated Sounds of Old San Juan Hill at the New Geffen Hall 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

I would have people saying like, “You need to be in hip-hop. You need to be in R&B. You need to be in pop. You need to be in rock.” Black, Female and Carving Out Their Own Path in Country Music 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

He is a choreographer, probably the greatest one in hip-hop. Review: In ‘Funkedified,’ the Visceral Glory of Funk 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Jordan plus Lee led to urban communities, and urban communities were birthing hip-hop, and hip-hop culture was on its way to becoming “the dominant subculture,” complete with Nikes as part of the dress code. How Nike Won the Cultural Marathon 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

It’s angry but not ponderous; the songs are bright and bouncy, almost cartoonish, colored with stripes of pop and hip-hop and reggae, consistent with Ms. Stefani’s style and aesthetic and outlook. Popcast: Gwen Stefani Returns 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

The pure joy of performance is nowhere more ecstatically revealed these days than in this evening of improvised hip-hop, made stageworthy by “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail and a cadre of lightning-quick rap magicians. Perspective | Out of dozens and dozens of plays and musicals, these deserved the hottest spotlight 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

These days, the Wu-Tang Clan is an abstraction — a symbol, a logo, shorthand for a kind of unpredictability that mainstream hip-hop has largely abandoned. Review: A Wu-Tang Clan Documentary Captures the Group’s Wild Self-Invention 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

Most of the week is dominated by turns from big names in hip-hop. SXSW music festival: Solange, Death Grips and Kendrick Lamar 2013-03-18T16:49:11Z

At one point, he became deeply reverential about the power of hip-hop. What Normalization Means 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

However, when the soulful hip-hop icon does decide to take stock of her life and music, it’ll no doubt be pure poetry. 13 music memoirs we’d like to read in 2017 by women and artists of color 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

But that didn’t pose a problem for Shabazz Palaces, the bohemian Seattle hip-hop duo, or the comedy team of Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson, who took gleeful advantage of their cultural distance from the crowd. Wilco Tinkers and Experiments at a Festival It’s Happy to Share 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

But the rap pioneers N.W.A. were passed over, an omission that led to a barrage of complaints from younger critics and hip-hop fans. Hall of Fame Decides Who Rocks, Officially 2014-04-09T21:44:44Z

The lineup includes performances by independent hip-hop artists, an exhibition of works by street and graffiti artists and an M.C. workshop. Weekend Miser 2011-07-07T22:17:04Z

In hip-hop, public presentation — and the respect it attracted — was everything. Hip-hop was poised to conquer fashion. Why did it stop short? 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

If hip-hop dancing had met ridicule on the yard, these exercises were even riskier. Can a Dance Class Free Men’s Bodies in a Place Meant to Contain Them? 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

The improbable success of “Royals” on hip-hop radio is even stranger given that on those stations, it’s surrounded by the sorts of songs it rails against. Music Review: Lorde on Monday Night at Roseland Ballroom 2014-03-11T12:02:05Z

Otherworldly electronic/hip-hop courtesy of Model Home merges with Bachman, a Virginia guitar virtuoso, for one of the most exciting concerts of the summer. The best concerts of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Her spoken-word performances have the metre and craft of traditional poetry, the kinetic agitation of hip-hop and the intimacy of a whispered heart-to-heart. Kate Tempest: the performance poet who can't be ignored 2013-04-10T14:50:13Z

But long before hip-hop became the cultural phenomenon that it is today, poetry was the preferred canvas for African-American writers concerned with the black experience and how it relates to fear and death. What Antwon Rose’s Poetry Tells Us About Being Black in America 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

This sample-heavy instrumental hip-hop that you helped pioneer was pretty cutting edge in the 1990s. ArtsBeat Blog: DJ Shadow Talks About His Latest Sonic Collages 2011-10-04T15:59:54Z

Since the hip-hop industry has been known for not being very gayfriendly, Caroline saw it as a huge step for a straight rapper to come out with a song like this. What it’s like growing up with an LGBT parent, in their kids’ own words 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

At less than two minutes long, it's the R&B equivalent of a hip-hop radio freestyle or mixtape track, definitely not aspiring to be a "hit single." Video with commentary: "Acura Integurl" by Frank Ocean 2011-05-23T16:36:15Z

And when you look at hip-hop music today, that’s what it’s doing. ‘Hamilton’ choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler delivers a revolution that rocks  2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Even so, it seems to serve notice that Minaj is attempting to break rank with other rappers in 2010 by deliberately alluding to a less homogenous era of hip-hop. Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday 2010-11-22T15:27:00Z

In the opening lines of the video for his 2014 single “Explode,” rapper Big Freedia outlines the precarious position he holds in the hip-hop industry. Rapper Big Freedia's career bounces in various directions 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

The hip-hop era hasn’t been kind to R&B crooners like Usher. Review: Usher’s ‘Hard II Love’ Uses Regret as a Selling Point 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

The dance school welcomed its first class in fall 2015, with 33 students collaborating with dance professionals while studying styles including ballet, ballroom and hip-hop. USC celebrates the opening of a $46-million building for dance 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

They had been trying to keep us alive ever since, joking that they should start a hip-hop group 2PWC — Two Parents With Cancer. Acid redux: My long, strange, cancer-fighting trip back to tripping 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

This system is corrosive to music, period — classical, jazz, hip-hop, everything. Kendrick Lamar Shakes Up the Pulitzer Game: Let’s Discuss 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

The movement includes features of hip-hop, with varying degrees of stress and fluency sending currents through the body. Dance Review: William Forsythe?s ?I don?t believe in outer space? - Review 2011-10-27T22:16:44Z

The absence of a marquee pop LP could open the floor up to the second hip-hop album of all time to win the title, following in the footsteps of OutKast’s "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below." Taylor Swift’s “Reputation’ is Grammys’ biggest snub 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

My mom loved R&B and she loved R. Kelly and hip-hop. Alexandra Shipp on becoming Aaliyah 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

I love his song “Who’s on the Playlist” because it invites the question, “Is this jazz or is this hip-hop?” Five Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Jazz 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

With that change has come a lighter style, demonstrated by the likes of Settle Down, and he is signed to hip-hop label We the Best/Young Money Cash Money. Sounds of Jamaica: eight acts you need to know about now 2012-06-28T19:00:00Z

And me and Bob were doing talent shows, but we were doing all hip-hop. Meet the reggae band with global cred made up of white guys ... from Arlington 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Alison Wonderland played a set of heaving, defiant tempo changes moving amid hip-hop, trap and brief pop interjections, and did some scratching on digital turntables. Review: Electric Zoo, a Menagerie Designed for Dancing 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

It’s a very musical film, warm and undulating, featuring original songs from Los Angeles fusion hip-hop producer Flying Lotus. ‘An Oversimplification of Her Beauty’ is not simple but good 2013-06-20T21:51:50Z

And his big single is like a simulacrum of a mainstream hip-hop hit. White Rappers, Clear of a Black Planet 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Bill Adler, a onetime publicist turned journalist and hip-hop documentarian whose archive was purchased by Cornell University, praised “The Breaks” for recreating the 1990s. ‘The Breaks,’ a TV Movie on VH1, Examines the Year Hip-Hop Found Its Flow 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

At the same time, at some point society should be able to both focus on the potency of the lens of hip-hop and also concentrate on what hip-hop brings into view. Hip-hop professor looks to open doors with world’s first peer-reviewed rap album 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

The choreography includes not only bhangra, but also kathak, a classical Indian dance form, as well as Bollywood, hip-hop, jazz and ballet. Bhangra Is Big on Campus. Now It’s Inspiring a Musical. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

Everything I do is in the spirit of hip-hop.” 50 Rappers, 50 Stories: Hear the Remix 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z

Along the way, he earned rapturous praise from the hip-hop elite. XXXTentacion Signed $10 Million Album Deal Before His Death 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

The new record is a familiar mix of their brand of disco meets funk and hip-hop, with more than a smattering of eighties balladeers Halls and Oates. Chromeo 'trying to work all angles' 2014-02-03T07:44:42Z

I don’t see myself like that, but the vast majority of people who listen to hip-hop do, regardless of how I see myself. Talib Kweli on the Burdens of Being Hip-Hop’s Outspoken Conscience 2013-06-19T16:29:21Z

Gibbons cast his mind back to 1996, when the band's studio was being refurbished and instead they were recording in a place used by the local hip-hop crews. ZZ Top: Dalís of the Delta 2012-11-08T19:00:00Z

More than being a mostly faithful rendering of the inner workings of a hip-hop label, “Platinum” also did an admirable job in its treatment of women. Before ‘Empire,’ a Foundation Laid by ‘Platinum’ 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

It weaves together corporate malfeasance, international intrigue and an astounding hip-hop stylist, and was partly shot at a ruined American listening station in Berlin, a satire edged in ominousness in the era of fake news. Diving Into Movie Palaces of the Mind at the Whitney 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Working-class whites are said to be poor because of outsourcing; inner-city blacks are imagined to be holding themselves back with hip-hop. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

I'm not an avid hip-hop listener and I hadn't really tuned into Odd Future before but I think they're amazing. Kevin Parker: soundtrack of my life 2013-04-27T23:04:04Z

But the startling impact of his style hadn’t gone unnoticed in his time, in bohemian hip-hop circles. How the Soulquarians Birthed D’Angelo’s ‘Voodoo’ and Transformed Jazz 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

He laughs off the comparison, but he doesn't think drawing on American artists is a problem for South African hip-hop. Hip-hop: who represents Africa? 2011-02-17T21:59:01Z

They often met popular music where it actually has been over the past year, with performances by central stars of pop, hip-hop, rock and country. The Grammys Discover Youth 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

On SNL, I either had to play a militant or a hip-hop guy. Jon Stewart, Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien and the behind-the-scenes secrets of comedy’s ’90s glory days 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

It now plays classic hip-hop and R&B with the marketing slogan of "Back in the Day." Get those dedications ready: Art Laboe is coming back to L.A. radio 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

“It’s so, so beautiful to see the community coming together,” said Felukah, a hip-hop artist who moved to New York from Egypt in 2018 and is a regular at Laylit and other parties like it. A Middle Eastern Party Scene Is Thriving on Brooklyn’s Dance Floors 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

But then there’s the taste for hip-hop and streetwear, trumpeted on Instagram, and the branding deals and crossover tracks, including a 2020 collaboration with a trio of Polish rappers and pop stars for Pepsi. He Break Dances. He Pole Dances. He Sings Like an Angel. 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

The harder he works to push hip-hop into places it hasn’t previously been, the less his presence is noted, or required. Pitbull Moves Beyond Hip-Hop and Into the Unknown on ‘Climate Change’ 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

When people are going through it, they may enjoy listening to different R&B and hip-hop artists. Marvin Sapp on new album and dealing with pandemic at church 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

And I was blown away that they were blown away, because it’s definitely not hip-hop. Chick Corea’s 75th Birthday Celebration Will Make Music for Months 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

The 2021 awards show, which honors the year’s best in soul, hip-hop and R&B, will be taped and debut on BET and BET Her on Nov. 28 at 8 p.m. Soul Train Awards headed to Apollo for the first time 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

Then, last year, the Super Bowl was in Atlanta, a global center of hip-hop — and the N.F.L. booked the pop rock band Maroon 5 as the headliner. Jay-Z Takes on the Super Bowl 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

Despite the cold war between Premier and Guru, few in hip-hop believed that the classic Gang Starr lineup was over forever. Fans Were Surprised to Get More Gang Starr. They Almost Didn’t. 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

The music — hip-hop, R&B, astute classical selections and Nicholas Britell’s subtle score — is both surprising and perfect. ‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The hip-hop mogul Marion Knight, known as Suge, a founder of the Death Row Records label, was shot early Sunday at a West Hollywood, Calif., nightclub. Suge Knight, Hip-Hop Record Executive, Shot at Club 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

As the decade continued, she took greater control of her career amid personal turmoil, embracing hip-hop and soul and becoming a more gifted interpreter and songwriter. Review: Mariah Carey's Collects All of Her Hits on '#1 to Infinity' 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

If the hip-hop generation’s embrace of prep fashion signaled the style’s move from tradition to subversion, Black Ivy qualifies as post-subversion, the full-scale embrace of prep heritage filtered through an outsider’s lens. Pushing the Boundaries of Black Style 2011-08-17T23:25:33Z

She and RocketNumberNine had recast the song, trading its original scratching hip-hop production for Minimalistic arpeggios and a sustained synthesizer undertow. Neneh Cherry at the Highline Ballroom 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

You could add other names to the list of Fishbone’s heirs: the racially and stylistically polymorphous indie rockers TV on the Radio, the Atlanta hip-hop and soul bohemians Cee-Lo Green and Janelle Monáe. ?Everyday Sunshine? Celebrates Ska-Punk Rockers Fishbone 2011-10-02T02:45:06Z

Mr. West’s forceful, tireless set of arena-scale hip-hop, the festival’s finale, was a cautionary tale in reverse. Critic?s Notebook: Lollapalooza Debut in Chile, Speaking Many Tongues 2011-04-04T22:27:33Z

I’ve seen respectable examples of hip-hop, Spanish, African, modern dance and ballet in my “Nutcracker” travels, but no tap to date. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: A First Trip to the Apollo 2010-12-21T12:00:55Z

While Pharrell’s breezy tune is steeped in the idioms of American hip-hop and dance culture, the video for “It Girl” comes from the world of Japanese otaku—obsessive fans of anime, manga, and video games. Pharrell Williams’s Lolicon Video 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

The dissolving boundaries between hip-hop, dance music, programmers, producers and live performers were obvious through the festival. At SXSW, Stepping Back to Allow Hopeful Artists to Step Up 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

After Hicks’s explosive “No Way,” Macasaet sings the hip-hop comedy number “Don’t Lose Ur Head,” then Mueller steps up with a plaintive ballad worthy of Whitney Houston, “Heart of Stone.” Review | ‘Six’ is the pulse-quickening pleasure trove that Broadway has been waiting for 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

Saturday night’s arena headliner was a jazz-influenced hip-hop act, The Roots, which topped a thematic through-line of contemporary African-American music that placed the festival firmly in the present. Even at 57, Monterey Jazz Festival still finding new levels of groove 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

A medicine show features hip-hop from men in wheelchairs and their nurses; a fight scene is wittily staged in a bathhouse; a couple of bowling sequences would fit snugly in “The Big Lebowski.” Movie Review: Surreal Song and Dance in ‘The Rooftop’ 2013-07-19T00:29:42Z

Instead, he revealed himself to be Jack Johnson with 808s and nakedly grafted hip-hop slang. Review | Post Malone is the perfect pop star for this American moment. That’s not a compliment. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

From Sturgill Simpson to Canned Heat, from classic hip-hop to traditional Native hymns, the soundtrack is more than background ambiance: It actively develops these multi-generational characters. On "Reservation Dogs," the raddest soundtrack on TV "breaks expectations" for Native storytelling 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

As happens sometimes during gatherings of hip-hop elders, some took the opportunity to bemoan the current state of the music. Phife Dawg Is Celebrated at Memorial at the Apollo 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

N.W.A is probably more rock ’n’ roll than a lot of the people that he thinks belong there over hip-hop. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Embraces N.W.A, and Ice Cube Is Cool With It 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Virgil's design was a master class in minimalism, especially when considering the history of hip-hop. It's been 10 years since "Yeezus" and the Kanye we will never see again 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z

Would this slice of shared history, told in rapid-fire hip-hop lyrics and muscular choreography, resonate on this side of the pond? ‘Hamilton’ Opens in London. Does Anyone Know Who Alexander Hamilton Is? 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z