Hip-hop history is coming home to Wilmington. This spring, hip-hop pioneer and Wilmington native Sharon Jackson, known as MC Sha-Rock — she's considered to be the first female rapper — will be honored ...

AUSTIN (KXAN)— Bryon Chambers was 16 years old when he snuck into a club where the first South by Southwest (SXSW) hip-hop showcase was happening 35 years ago. “That’s a funny story,” Chambers said ...

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Fans of Christian rapper/hip-hopper Lecrae, who performed at Waco Hall earlier this month, probably caught the news Tuesday that he won several Dove Awards for his ...

As the music evolved, rap battles — competitions that take the form of verbal duels — emerged as an essential component of the culture. In the following decades, the first influential hip-hop and rap ...

By Robert Hill Fifty-two-year-old Houston Hip-Hop legend and Swishahouse co-founder Michael Watts, known as "5000 Watts," ...

New Orleans native rapper McKinley "Mac" Phipps and his wife Angelique won an Emmy Award last week for their short film, "Rap Trap: Hip Hop on Trial." It won an Emmy for Outstanding Arts, Culture and ...

ATLANTA — Atlanta rap legend Gucci Mane will perform at halftime of the Atlanta Hawks home opener later this month. The Hawks announced on Tuesday that the rap legend, whose real name is Radric Davis, ...

Introduction / P. Khalil Saucier -- Part One: African noise : mapping African hip-hop from the East, West, and South: Rappin' Griots : producing the local in Senegalese hip-hop / Catherine Appert ; ...