Lowdown Brass Band has been able to merge the jazz sounds of New Orleans with the stylings of Chicago and the grit of hip-hop to create something special. We spoke with Lance Loiselle, the band’s ...

Chuck D once famously called hip-hop the CNN of the Black community, the way people got the news. Is it still? If so, what is the news coming across, who is telling it most profoundly? I feel hip-hop ...

What would it sound like if Rick James, Janelle Monae, Prince all teamed up to make a hip-hop album? It’s a question that no one has asked, and yet Toronto rapper and poet Exmiranda has offered up the ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: March 1, 1994: Hammer, who dropped the MC from his name during this time, delivered his fifth studio album, The Funky Headhunter, via Giant Records ...

As James Brown emerged as the most sampled artist in the late '80s into the '90s, the funk and soul pioneer found himself ...

After running the show for five consecutive weeks with their dance-pop smash “Promises,” electronic dance producer Calvin Harris and crooner Sam Smith have stepped aside to allow a brand new arrival ...

On this date in 1981, the pioneering Hip Hop group The Funky 4 + 1 More became the first Hip Hop group to perform live on a national television broadcast. Formed in The Bronx in 1976, originally ...

Hip hop/rap is a culture that changed the world, a culture created and perfected by Black and brown Americans.

SEATTLE — This segment is an encore presentation taped pre-COVID-19. Seattle Dance Fitness is currently hosting new online Hip Hop Kids Dance Fitness® classes - great for the whole family! Hip Hop ...

"I want to try something new/because sometimes you have to step outside your comfort zone to figure out who you really are ..." So goes the opening to "Foolish," the second track on "Far From Finished ...