Hip-hop has always been bigger than sound alone. From fashion and visuals to physical merchandise, artists build brands fans can recognize, wear, and belong to.

Launching the Spring 2026 semester, the Ivy League university will introduce the course highlighting how women emcees revolutionized the rap game.

Numerous books have been written about the origins of hip-hop and its evolution from an underground phenomenon to a global force. While its growth since the 1990s had been well-documented, here are some notable events from hip-hop’s formative first two ...

Pop ruled as the most common primary genre over hip-hop in the Hot 100's top 10 throughout 2025, according to Hit Songs Deconstructed's analysis.

Fifty years into hip-hop, we've gotten used to decades of headlines proclaiming the genre's culture is homophobic and misogynistic — that generations of queer talents were forced to the peripheries and into closets until today's mega star rappers like ...

August 11 is National Hip-Hop Celebration Day! The celebration was made official by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer last July, following the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. In a speech on the Senate floor, Schumer said: "Hip hop has transcended language ...

Politicians once abhorred rap stars. Now they're embracing them. Feb. 14, 2013 -- In the 1990s Washington was polarized on many of the same issues as today: taxes, the economy, gun control. But there was one cultural idea that seemed to have bipartisan ...

Hip-hop has transformed music, and the world at large, since it was conceived 50 years ago. In a relatively short time, it's made a massive impact on every aspect of pop culture — and fortunately, there are a lot of great documentaries that chronicle the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song's vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. It was then that hip-hop came into the world, taking the moment and reinventing it.

The latest new way to imbibe without booze is hop water—a zero-calorie, sugar-free sparkling beverage infused with hops. Though they have a beer-like aroma and hoppy flavor, craft-brewed hop waters don’t contain malt or yeast, so they are naturally ...

The class will highlight the impact of women emcees like Lil Kim and Cardi B, while examining the culture’s history through a gendered lens.