n July 29, 2012, a family function was born on the patio of San Francisco’s El Rio. Rapper MicahTron, who grew up in Hunters Point, struck a pose onstage in a silk bomber jacket, encouraging an ...

In a landscape where artistry often gets boxed in, Jetty Chow refuses to play by the rules. He’s not just another rapper chasing streams — he’s a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and performer whose ...

Mary J. Blige calls her latest road trek the For My Fans Tour. But know that the show — which stopped Wednesday night, March 19, at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena — is really all about Blige. And that ...

The post 50 Best Hip-Hop Songs of All Time appeared first on Consequence. It always starts with a song. Mine was Atmosphere’s “Trying to Find a Balance,” Cypress Hill’s Sen Dog told us about “Buffalo ...

How to encompass half a century of hip-hop? You start by acknowledging you can’t. Too many stars, too many songs, too many places, too many scandals: Hip-hop is an entire universe — a musical genre, ...

Like doo-wop, the earliest era of rap was full of groups and ensembles, many with numbers in their name, who were known for routines in which they passed lyrics between each member and often broke out ...

Slang and fashion are two relatively well-known facets of our society that stem from hip-hop. Whether it’s a unique catchphrase or a physical, nonverbal greeting, hip-hop’s influence on how we ...

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...