Hip-hop has endured numerous shifts through its existence, and Washington Post contributor Touré chronicles the genre’s transition from warning listeners of drug’s pitfalls to terrifying them with ...

"Did we say anything bad?" That's the last thing Liam Óg "Mo Chara" Ó Hannaidh utters on a Zoom call from New York's Tribeca Festival. He's addressing his group Kneecap's publicist, who, one imagines, ...

My book, Being Dope: Hip Hop & Theory through Mixtape Memoir, published in December 2025 by Oxford University Press, details ...

Since the mid-1980s when hip-hop fully entered the popular culture, filmmakers have been including dope beats and great rhymes in the soundtracks of their movies, creating some of the best soundtracks ...

In 2017, Belfast hip-hop trio Kneecap broke into wide public view in Northern Ireland when a song they recorded in the Irish language was banned from the radio, putting them at the forefront of an ...

Hip-hop has a drug problem. It permeates the music, it's imprinted in the culture and recently, it's been having deadly consequences for rappers. Rich Homie Quan's passing on Sept. 5 at the age of 34 ...

On this day in 1996, Queens-bred collective Lost Boyz dropped their seminal debut Legal Drug Money on Uptown/MCA Records; a project that, nearly three decades later, remains a definitive artifact of ...

Since the mid-1980s when hip-hop fully entered the popular culture, filmmakers have been including dope beats and great rhymes in the soundtracks of their movies, creating some of the best soundtracks ...