Folk that love rap music used to be the ones getting gifts during the holidays, now we giving the gifts to our little ones. Still, doing that last-minute Christmas shopping for your little ones? Well, ...

My book, Being Dope: Hip Hop & Theory through Mixtape Memoir, published in December 2025 by Oxford University Press, details ...

Six-time Grammy Award-winning drummer and producer Questlove is digging deep into the roots of hip-hop and uncovering how the genre has impacted culture. He explains it all in his new book "Hip-Hop is ...

Shea Serrano is a fabulous human being. For a long time, he wrote regular features here like Artist of the Week, Five Spot and time-stamped stream-of-consciousness concert reviews that people would ...

We’re still shouting happy birthday to Hip-Hop! We’re still shouting happy birthday to Hip-Hop! Having turned 50 on Aug. 11, 2023, Hip-Hop culture has changed the lives of many people since its birth.

The Grammy-winning musician will release the book through his book imprint, AUWA Books Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms ...

A genre essential, Jonathan Abrams tells the story of five decades of hip-hop using over three hundred interviews conducted over three years with the DJs, executives, producers, and artists who both ...

Though they might not always be as heralded, women have played crucial roles in some of the most impactful rap battles in history. Now, in a debut book from veteran culture writer Brooklyn White-Grier ...

Universal Music Group’s Mercury Studios and Republic Record’s Federal Films are partnering with Jupiter Entertainment to adapt Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop for the screen. The ...

When Ye – the artist formerly known as Kanye West – stated during a recent podcast that he doesn’t read books, some people questioned whether he was sending the wrong message to children. Those ...

If you like your music blog experiences to be timely and relevant, I suggest you stop reading now. This piece is neither. It concerns a book from five years ago that’s as inconsequential now as the ...