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Posted Monday 2/14/22 at 9:37AM EST
Super Bowl hip-hop halftime show featured "a dynamic performance sprawling atop a moat of potential political land mines"
"In the main, there was exuberant entertainment, a medley of hits so central to American pop that it practically warded...
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PBS and BBC team with Chuck D to tell The Story of Hip-Hop
The Public Enemy frontman and co-founder and his manager Lorrie Boula are working with BBC Studios on The Story of Hip-Hop...
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Succession's relationship with hip-hop is a microcosm of the show’s relationship with race
From Kendall Roy's hip-hop fandom to composer Nicholas Britell’s hip-hop-infused classical score, "Succession’s relationship with hip-hop—which is always conducted at...
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Posted Friday 7/16/21 at 8:31PM EDT
"Just a Friend" rap icon Biz Markie dies at 57
Biz Marke's death Friday, from complications from diabetes, comes two weeks after he was falsely declared dead while under medical care.
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Posted Friday 4/23/21 at 1:49AM EDT
Shock G, pioneering Digital Underground hip-hop artist and producer, dies at 57
Gregory Davis, who performed as Shock G and Humpty Hump, was best known for starring in Digital Underground's 1990 MTV hit...
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Posted Friday 4/09/21 at 2:13PM EDT
Rapper DMX dies at 50
The New York rapper known for “Party Up (Up in Here)” died today after being hospitalized since suffering a heart...
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Posted Monday 1/25/21 at 12:31PM EST
Watch FX's Hip Hop Uncovered trailer
The six-episode docuseries telling the story of hip-hop from the "the streets up" will drop two episodes per week, starting...
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Posted Saturday 9/19/20 at 2:57AM EDT
Read an oral history of Yo! MTV Raps
MTV was infamously slow to catch on to rap music, waiting three years after its 1981 launch to show its...
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Posted Saturday 5/23/20 at 4:35AM EDT
Growing Up Hip-Hop has been compelling showcasing the new, messy generation of the children of rappers
Though there have been Atlanta and New York spinoffs of Growing Up Hip-Hop, "it’s the Los Angeles cast that most...
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Posted Wednesday 12/04/19 at 1:19PM EST
BET to tell the story of hip-hop hit-maker Uptown Records
Andre Harrell's New York record label that was behind the success of Sean "Diddy" Combs, Heavy D & the Boyz,...
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Posted Thursday 11/07/19 at 1:36PM EST
Eric Andre to host Quibi's Rapper Warror Ninja reality competition
Andre promises “the biggest rap battle to ever hit the hip hop world," featuring today's hip-hop artists freestyling while traversing...
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Posted Thursday 10/17/19 at 3:14AM EDT
Why Rhythm + Flow is the best-ever rap reality TV competition
"The Netflix show doesn’t neuter rap’s inherent aesthetics, or mostly doesn’t," says Carl Wilson.
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Posted Wednesday 10/09/19 at 11:05PM EDT
Rhythm + Flow is irresistible, even as the Netflix rap competition recycles American Idol clichés
The three-week reality competition event, featuring T.
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Posted Saturday 9/14/19 at 3:10AM EDT
How TV learned to take hip-hop seriously
"Television has co-opted, mangled and embraced hip-hop culture through every phase of its history, ever since MTV 'discovered' a group...
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Posted Thursday 9/05/19 at 4:54PM EDT
Watch the trailer for AMC's Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
Each episode of the music docuseries will examine a groundbreaking song pivotal to the evolution of hip-hop, from Run-D.