Tag: hip hop

The death of popular rapper XXXTentaction raises questions of ethical consumption.

It has already, time and time again.

The Pulitzer Prize-winner’s work always feels honest, as writers have found when they dive deep into his literary influences.

When the nineties’ heart of whiteness met g-funk, it was the illest — and wackest — of times.

The hip-hop artist sits down for a wide-ranging interview with NYT executive editor Dean Baquet.

Zandria F. Robinson narrates her coming of age Memphis while examining contemporary southernness.

Understanding what the rapper means to her audience, beyond the flash of celebrity.

The modern hip-hop classic reflects growing up in Compton “one thousand percent.”

A look at how the Beastie Boys invented themselves with their 1992 album Check Your Head.

Kyle Kramer, editor at Noisey, talks with A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip about staying true to himself while evolving with the sound of hip-hop.

Journalist Jeff Chang’s 2005 book Can’t Stop Won’t Stop offers a history of hip-hop culture, and he’s particularly good at capturing the 1970s Bronx neighborhood party scene that helped start it all, with a young Jamaican-born DJ named Clive Campbell—who moved to the Bronx with his family as a child and soon started hosting parties as […]

“When Our Kids Own America,” Gene Demby, NPR.