The early days of hip-hop were about community and raw creativity — far from the mainstream industry it would later become. Bigger Than The Music Hip-hop is a full cultural movement built on four main ...

Music Documentary Film Festival Returns 26 With Hip-Hop Film and Star-Studded Performance. Hip Hop musicians i ...

This year’s Underground Music Showcase is poised to be particularly nostalgic. The festival, which was started as a DIY effort by Denver Post journalists in 2001, isn’t just celebrating its 25th year ...

Like many of his peers in this milieu, Ka was once an also-ran in the hypercompetitive rap industry. He came of age in the Eighties crack era, as he told Red Bull Music Academy in 2016: “Put like this ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jacqueline Schneider is a reporter who covers music and technology. In 2004, just one year after MySpace launched, DJ culture and ...

The new hip-hop musical “Mexodus” takes, and tells of, a road less traveled. The two-person show recalls the southbound underground railroad, a chapter in U.S. history that saw thousands of enslaved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prince Williams/Wireimage / Jason Koerner/Getty Images)/ Paras Griffin/Getty Images This week's hip-hop releases are packed with ...

A new generation of hip-hop artists seems less interested in becoming stars and more in becoming myths — and dismantling the status quo. A new generation of hip-hop artists seems less interested in ...

Mick Jenkins has a chip on his shoulder when it comes to defending hip-hop’s under-appreciated underground. “We’re celebrating 50 years of hip-hop, and a lot of artists like myself who’ve been in this ...

The newly published 2026 report from Rap Fame offers a revealing look at one of music’s fastest-growing creator segments: the global underground hip-hop community. Based on a survey of roughly 1,500 ...

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the Grammys. At this year’s awards, taking place on Feb. 2, hip-hop and house ...