Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...

Netflix has greenlighted an Italian edition of its hit rap competition Rhythm + Flow, following in the wake of the hit U.S. original and the successful French version Nouvelle École which is now in ...

While hip-hop is continuously in a state of innovation, early on its ear for music was attached to the sounds its earliest listeners enjoyed partying to.

HIP-HOP WAS BORN IN THE BRONX IN the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary, “ Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists ...

During Netflix’s Fan Fest event to celebrate the premiere of Rhythm + Flow season two, John Legend spoke with VIBE about executively producing the competitive rap series—as a singer. Held in Atlanta ...

Rap is the most word-intoxicated genre in the history of American popular music. Against a stark background of pure rhythm, rappers' words arrive in a torrent of syncopated speech -- rhymes, puns, ...