“Lit” dates back to the early 1900s, when it meant being drunk. These days, it’s used by rappers to describe something exciting. Rapper Nas used the term in his 1996 song “The Message,” in which he ...
The co-curators and performers of Brooklyn Academy of Music’s annual celebration of hip-hop and poetry talk about this year’s theme of "The New Storyteller." The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) ...
Malcolm-Jamal Warner launched a new podcast, Not All Hood, and shared he stopped listening to J. Cole over the N-word usage. Not All Hood debuted on Monday (June 10) and the opening episode, titled ...
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter penned a heartfelt love letter to the genre and its biggest performers in collaboration with BET. In the nearly five-minute ...
His breakout single “Time’s Up” remains one of the most scathing mission statements in Hip Hop history. Over Buckwild’s dark piano thump, OC delivered a verbal lightning bolt against fraudulence in ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prominent U.S. hip-hop executive Russell Simmons on Monday recommended eliminating the words "bitch," "ho" and "nigger" from the recording industry, considering them "extreme ...
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