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, ...
YNW Melly and the Pretrial Decade: How a Capital Case Became a Test of the System Itself
YNW Melly, born Jamell Demons on May 1, 1999 in Gifford, Florida, is a rapper who rose to fame in ...
Today in Hip-Hop: Quick Bites – 5/28/2026
Hip hop today feels like it’s running on two timelines at once: the veterans fighting for respect and control of ...
