The thirst for positive hip-hop music and deferential representation of women in the music is nothing new. Essence magazine publicly jumped in the fight in 2005 with their popular initiative Taking ...

Tonight, however, the sounds of hip-hop will boom within the club’s walls. stuff, I don’t really think the crowd can relate to that in a good way, and I don’t think they can really get a good vibe off ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Nestled in the open spaces of east central Illinois, the main University of Illinois campus is widely known for its agriculture curriculum and its engineering school -- not for ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A Chicago woman on a mission to bring the ...

Over the years, several individuals have somehow equated all of hip-hop to “thug music.” Some commentators believe that hip-hop is limited to bling, expensive cars, lewd dancing, flamboyance, video ...

There's something almost absurd about it, if you think too hard. A music genre born in the Bronx in the 1970s, born from ...

Hip-hop music's sometimes sexually and violence-charged messages haven't fallen on deaf ears in area schools. The thumping rhythms that for the most part evolved on the urban streets of the East Coast ...

S1: Welcome in San Diego. It's Andrew Bowen in for Jade Hindman on today's show. November is National Hip Hop History Month , and if you didn't know , San Diego has a thriving hip hop scene , we'll ...

When Mike Thomas was a kid growing up in the Bronx, hip-hop was everywhere. He would buy hip-hop CDs from guys on the street. One of the first songs that really spoke to him was Jay-Z’s “Hard Knock ...