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The six-time platinum-selling artist invites fans into an imagined future that celebrates Blackness and queerness.
When delivered with integrity, rap can be a cathartic experience for both the speaker and the community receiving the message
Kabin Crew’s Rhyme Island initiative has worked with refugees to create many catchy tracks
By what myths did Prodigy live? His 2012 autobiography suggested he saw himself as living in a mythical world of dual and conflicting forces.
Eminem has routinely used the lead singles from his studio albums to reintroduce himself. And Houdini is no different.
Beefs often target Drake’s race, constructing him as a Canadian who is not Black enough to claim an authentic connection to African-American hip hop culture.
The diss tracks released by rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar raise interesting questions about defamation in music lyrics.
Since rap’s emergence, artists have boasted about themselves in ways that were funny and sometimes violent, vulgar and sexist. The popularity of the music and its exploitation can be dangerous.
A reconsideration of Nas’s literary clout, 30 years after the release of Illmatic.
Wales has a rich musical heritage, and the next generation is ready to take centre stage.
Looking back at the history of the diss track, it is the strength of female emcees that stands out.
Vladimir Putin and his KGB men have steadily extinguished the artistic freedom the genre enjoyed in the 1990s, with Ukraine’s invasion adding yet another nail in the coffin.
Asian martial arts and films functioned as mythic models which inspired Black and brown youth in the making of ‘urban warriors,’ and later the Wu-Tang Clan.
Costume, hair and dance allow her to modernise Tsonga culture – and help shape youth identity.
Created as an art of resistance by Black artists in the U.S., hip-hop culture has inspired global struggles and youth culture across the world, including in Canada.
A critical race theory scholar explains why it’s problematic to use rap lyrics as evidence of a crime, and what some lawmakers are doing to protect artistic expression.
Modern music education is giving students more and more opportunities to create their own tracks.
The lyrics illustrate what it means to grow up young, black and deprived on the fortress like council estates of London.
In many parts of the world, hip-hop has become a way for Muslim artists to assert their belonging and identity.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
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Research Lead at Rhythm Obscura / Lecturer in the School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Plymouth
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Assistant Professor of Practice, Mills College
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Associate Professor of American Culture, University of Michigan
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Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
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Piano Performance Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Music, Wesleyan University
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Associate Professor of Africana Philosophies of Religions and American Religious Diversity, San Diego State University
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Rap Lyricist and Lecturer in Music Performance at Confetti Institute of Creative Technology, Nottingham Trent University
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PhD. Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University
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Teaching Assistant Professor of Musicology, West Virginia University
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Professor of Music, University College Cork
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Assistant Professor of European Studies, University of Florida
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Associate Professor, Rutgers University, DEA Fellow, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH), Rutgers University
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Assistant Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley
