From MPCs to FL Studio sessions, one thing remains consistent across generations of Hip Hop and R&B: The power of the sample. With that said, few eras have been mined more heavily than the 1980s. With ...

It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

In this heartfelt open letter, Shad Reed thanks Adam Sandler for seamlessly weaving rap culture into his films, from —The Pharcyde to Beanie Sigel to Method Man. And more. While Merriem-Webster ...

AllHipHop recently spoke with Benny Boom at a red carpet event celebrating the release of his new documentary, A Love Letter to Hip-Hop, which is co-directed and narrated by Black Thought of The Roots ...

In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...

On Nov. 2, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will debut its first feature-length film, “The South Got Something To Say.” The documentary tells the story of Atlanta’s rise as a hip-hop power, at the ...

GRAND RAPIDS — At first blush, opera and hip-hop might not seem to mesh. After all, the history of opera dates back more than 400 years, and hip-hop just celebrated a half-century. But there are ...

The letter calls on "AI developers, technology companies, platforms, and digital music services to cease using artificial intelligence (AI) to infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists." ...

North Carolina has an official state dog, state tree and state bird. But what about an official state hip-hop song? On Tuesday, state senator Natalie Murdock pitched an idea. North Carolina has an ...

Hip-hop is 50 years old. Since the beginning of hip-hop culture, rap artists’ lyrics have always touched on making something out of nothing, making a dollar out of 15 cents, and manifesting—often by ...

Hip hop and gambling go way back – especially when rappers talk about money. Traditionally, these gambling references revolved around the glitz of physical casinos. But recently, things have changed.