On this day in 2006, Lumumba Carson, better known as Professor X of X-Clan, passed away at 49 years old due to complications ...

Hip-hop started as the political voice of the disenfranchised African-American youth: from its origins in New York projects, to permeating the sounds of the Deep South and the sunny climes of the ...

But to say, as many conservatives do, that hip-hop is culturally corrosive is to demonstrate a lack of familiarity with the music itself. This remains an unfortunate blind spot for a political ...

A new generation of artists has rewritten the definition of rap to make the genre a cultural powerhouse yet again.

Hop's political movement before the rise of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, only to be pushed aside by major moguls like Russell Simmons and Diddy.

Roy Ayers was a beloved sample source who made it a point to collaborate with rappers as the genre rose to prominence ...