Hip-hop A-listers including Rick Ross, Akon and Plies were caught grossly exaggerating their gangster credentials this year. (Turns out they were painfully law-abiding. The horror!) But even if your ...

A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience–these seven books and 41,000 words in common.

President-elect Barack Obama s landmark 2008 presidential run not only galvanized the nation, but ignited a renewed sense of political awareness and music from Hip-Hop artists. The noticeable trend ...

A diverse group of artists,academic and analysts will gather at the University of Chicago on April 5 for "The Hip-Hop Generation: Race, Gender & the Vote" conference. The conference, which is ...

The lyrics are unmistakable. The beats, one of a kind. And the controversy, infinite. In the history of music, no genre has created more controversy in the mainstream public than rap. Even rock can't ...

Over the last 30 years, the business models of rap labels, specifically the ones that tap into an indie ethic associated with music labels of the 1940s and ’50s, have at times been more interesting ...

We loved pretty much every single thing about the “Shaq impromptu attack on Kobe Bryant during a freestyle session in an NYC club” story, but there are so many brilliant individual nuggets that we had ...

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