People watching their performance can claim that they wanted to show off their own very best individual skill set for the culture and spirit of hip hop. From Left to Right: Yardy Léxandros, ...

The most important rule of One Hundred, a monthly freestyle rap event organized by local nonprofit Soul Food Cypher, is to show courtesy. Cursing is strongly discouraged—unless it is to prove a larger ...

Denver MC Matthew Jones, aka BROTH3R, hosts Hush, a freestyle rap night held at Mutiny Information Cafe the third Friday of each month – one of the few regular underground hip-hop events in the Mile ...

ATLANTA — The Atlanta hip-hop scene evokes names like Outkast, T.I., Migos, and numerous major-label success stories. But in recent years, a different branch has taken hold, literally underground. The ...

It might be 95 degrees on this sultry summer evening in East Point, but here in the CreateATL outdoor space, much of the heat the crowd is feeling comes from the rapid-fire lyrical craftsmanship that ...

In hip-hop culture, the cypher is a circle in which people are rapping and beatboxing in a collective – a space that lays the foundation for the creation of community and music. 'Language won’t meant ...

This article is dedicated to everyone who participated in The ARRRISE AND GRIND Hip Hop Cypher Chapter 3. It was also sponsored by arrriseandgrindproductions. Allow me to reintroduce myself. My name ...

It’s around 9:00 on a Tuesday evening in East Quad’s Abeng Multicultural Lounge. A few students sit in comfy armchairs listening to hip-hop beats, reciting poems to each other and discussing a mixtape ...

Before Lin-Manuel Miranda hit the cypher circle with Black Thought and Questlove at the 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards, he was performing in the hit Broadway play Hamilton, which he calls a "love letter to ...

DJs, emcees, breakers and artists are uniting as one in the hip-hop community this weekend in Gainesville. The University of Florida break-dancing club team and the Hip Hop Collective are sponsoring ...