What’s the most iconic hip-hop track of the 21st Century? 1Xtra listeners have had their say. To mark the station’s 20 year anniversary, we’re asking listeners to pick their favourite ...

The vibrant 1990s marked a revolutionary period in the South African music scene, propelling hip hop into the spotlight and ...

Hip hop culture is arguably the most impactful artistic export the U.S. has to offer. It left its mark on everything: no haute couture house or Eastern European indie band was left untouched.

Hip hop has been an incredibly influential way of storytelling and social commentary through music, leading the genre to be the epicenter of the most influential musical artists in the history of hip ...

THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

So, you've caught up on our 10 essential music documentaries to watch on iPlayer and indulged in these seven fascinating electronic music radio docs. Now it's time to look at rap music and the ...

THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

The Laboratory for Ritual Arts & Pedagogy (The RAP LAB) at the University of Colorado, Boulder is a transdisciplinary research hub for the study of hip-hop cultures and adjacent artistic movements of ...

Independent record labels have been the lifeblood of hip-hop over the last five decades, and no other rap label is currently pushing the line like Top Dawg Entertainment. The label's eye for ...

On this day in Hip-Hop history, Atlanta duo Kris Kross made their explosive debut with Totally Krossed Out, an album that ...

It’s an assertion of Carti’s eminence in popular music, as attested by the album’s features by hip-hop’s reigning guard: Lamar ... the ability to create a sense of movement and drama with pure sound. ...