Jimmy Cliff’s 1972 film The Harder They Come laid the groundwork for hip-hop culture, blending authentic street narratives ...

Students packed into the Haymarket Theatre in Squires Student Center Thursday evening for an opportunity to hear rap icon Darryl "DMC" McDaniels speak. McDaniels, currently on his History of Hip Hop ...

LL Cool J, a pioneering figure in hip-hop, is set to take viewers on a captivating journey through the genre’s roots with the new docuseries Hip Hop Was Born Here. This five-part series, co-created ...

H. Rap Brown, now known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, quietly passed away over the weekend. He died in federal custody after a ...

Aug. 11 is hip-hop’s official birthday. On this day, 52 years ago, not only was a genre of music born, but a culture was birthed too. This culture would go on to create industries that made ...

Welcome to The State of R&B, ESSENCE’s look at the past, present and future of rhythm and blues. In this piece, ESSENCE editor Rivéa Ruff reports on the blending of hip-hop and R&B. Since the ...

Inside Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College, where southern gentility meets raw academic ambition, Dr. Joycelyn Wilson holds court with the easy confidence of someone who’s mastered the delicate art of ...

“We knew that when Teddy Pendergrass said, ‘Turn off the Lights,’ he meant go bed. And when Marvin Gaye said, ‘Let’s get it on,’ we all knew he meant go to work.” Of course, Teddy and Marvin’s ...

Classical instruments and orchestrations aren’t unknown in hip-hop music, but nobody mingles those sounds like the Illharmonic Orchestra. On Nov. 22, the New York-based ensemble is playing the Shubert ...