Local artists from Merafong attended the 2025 Back To The City Festival in Johannesburg, Africa’s biggest Hip Hop event.

For 19 years, Back to the City has united South African hip-hop and founder Osmic Menoe reflects on the festival’s culture, impact and vision ...

Award-winning rapper Yanga Chief speaks about expressing his Xhosa heritage through authentic hip-hop at Castle Milk Stout's ...

Elections aren't just a space for politicians to set the agenda around the world. Artists often weigh in on elections through their work. In Senegal, hip-hop artists have long played a key role in ...

Their deaths are a part of what fuels his work as the director of Georgetown University’s Center for Men’s Health Equity, ...

Ashley Tate is organizing the symposium at UNC Charlotte this month, bringing together hip-hop scholars, practitioners and ...

For five decades, hip-hop has redefined the soundscape of American music and created a billion-dollar industry in its wake. Hip-hop as we know it has evolved way past its humble beginnings in the ...

Marcyliena H. Morgan, founding director of Harvard's Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute, died from complications of ...

ATLANTA — As the country prepares to say goodbye to former President Jimmy Carter, those in the music industry are reflecting on Carter’s impact on Black music. “Black music is obviously our pain, our ...