How the South Won Hip-Hop: Four Decades of Infrastructure, Sound, and Power
For two decades, the conventional history of hip-hop ran through New York and Los Angeles. Then it didn't. By the...
Today in Hip-Hop: Quick Bites – 6/3/2026
Marc Lamont Hill Says Sources Confirm a New Jay-Z Album Is in the Works Marc Lamont Hill, speaking on the...
The Fad That Wasn’t: How Hip-Hop Survived Every Prediction of Its Death
Every few years, someone with a platform announces that hip-hop is over. They did it in 1979, when the first...
Today in Hip-Hop: Quick Bites – 6/2/2026
Jay-Z Fires at Drake, Ye, Nicki, Dame and Tory — Drake’s Response? A Hair Joke Jay-Z used Roots Picnic as...
Today in Hip-Hop: Quick Bites – 6/1/2026
Jay-Z Fires at Drake, Kanye, and Dame Dash in Rare Roots Picnic Freestyle Jay-Z stepped to the Roots Picnic stage...
Today in Hip-Hop: Quick Bites – 5/29/2026
Every day in hip-hop right now feels like a split-screen: one side is artists grinding through long arcs of development,...
