It’s impossible to overlook hip-hop’s profound impact on the global music landscape as it celebrates its 50th year. Beyond its birthplace in the Bronx, New York, this genre has transcended borders, ...

On International Mother Language Day, we look at how rap and hip-hop artists are mixing languages and spreading a vernacular ...

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...

Introduction / P. Khalil Saucier -- Part One: African noise : mapping African hip-hop from the East, West, and South: Rappin' Griots : producing the local in Senegalese hip-hop / Catherine Appert ; ...

Rapper Chuck D, of Public Enemy fame, is one of several who agree that basketball greats and hip-hop excellence share a ...

Award-winning producer and hitmaker DJ Maphorisa has shared his concerns about the state of hip-hop in South Africa, saying the genre has lost some of the spark that once made it dominant on local ...

Reviewed by Luis Gimenez in African music (Grahamstown, South Africa) 9 (3) 2013, pages 192-195. Reviewed by Caroline Mose in Journal of African cultural studies (London) 25 (2) June 2013, pages ...

Could the Love & Hip Hop franchise be expanding to a new continent? While the jury may still be out on if that would ever or happen or not, one thing is for certain: it seems like the franchise’s ...

For five decades, hip-hop has redefined the soundscape of American music and created a billion-dollar industry in its wake. Hip-hop as we know it has evolved way past its humble beginnings in the ...