New research shows playlists push sameness in hip-hop: shared 808 drums, shorter songs, heavy auto-tune, and more uniform lyrics across 2022 hits.

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

Believe it or not, hip-hop was once considered as a fad, but over the past few decades, it has skyrocketed to become of music's biggest genres. When hip-hop first started, some aspiring MCs saw it as ...