Hip-hop history is coming home to Wilmington. This spring, hip-hop pioneer and Wilmington native Sharon Jackson, known as MC Sha-Rock — she's considered to be the first female rapper — will be honored ...

AUSTIN (KXAN)— Bryon Chambers was 16 years old when he snuck into a club where the first South by Southwest (SXSW) hip-hop showcase was happening 35 years ago. “That’s a funny story,” Chambers said ...

Any descriptive label intended to encompass the talents of brother duo Spencer Battiest and Doc Native falls short. Although they produced and performed at a concert called “First Beats: Indigenous ...

Introduction / P. Khalil Saucier -- Part One: African noise : mapping African hip-hop from the East, West, and South: Rappin' Griots : producing the local in Senegalese hip-hop / Catherine Appert ; ...

Fans of Christian rapper/hip-hopper Lecrae, who performed at Waco Hall earlier this month, probably caught the news Tuesday that he won several Dove Awards for his ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Hip-hop artist Doechii, a Tampa native, won the Grammy Award for best rap album for “Alligator Bites Never Heal" on Sunday night. It was Doechii's first Grammy. The tears were immediate.

As the music evolved, rap battles — competitions that take the form of verbal duels — emerged as an essential component of the culture. In the following decades, the first influential hip-hop and rap ...

An elegiac retelling of rap’s origins, Hip-Hop Is History also ends with a sense of hope. Buffy (Darren Robinson) of the Fat Boys in Chicago, 1985. This Juneteenth featured, among other festivities, a ...

Wilmington will host MC Sha-Rock Day on May 17th to honor hip-hop pioneer and city native Sharon Jackson. Jackson, known as MC Sha-Rock, is considered the first female rapper and was an original ...