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The Most Anticipated Hip-Hop Albums of 2025
The year included chart-topping albums from Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, Tyler, The Creator, Future, Ye, 21 Savage and Yeat, and critically acclaimed releases from the likes of Doechii, Ab-Soul, Common and ...
Through hip-hop, Black youth are teaching their communities about their rights, justice and the law
Hip-hop has a story to tell — from early works like Grandmaster Flash’s The Message to Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer-winning album DAMN. and beyond. As education scholar Bettina L. Loves notes, in hip-hop ...
GloRilla Is the 2025 NAACP Image Awards Most Nominated Musician
The nominees for the 2025 NAACP Image Awards are in and include Beyoncé,, Usher, and Doechii, with GloRilla leading the pack ...
Johns Hopkins, Lupe Fiasco team up to offer first hip-hop bachelor’s degree in America
Potential turntablists, rappers, beatboxers and producers are applying now for admission to the fall 2025 semester, with ...
The Source Magazine1d
Today In Hip Hop History: 45 Years Ago Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” Became Hip-Hop’s First Top 40 Hit
On this day 45 years ago, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang became Hip-Hop’s first-ever Top 40 hit, marking a transformative moment in music history. Released in August 1979 by the Englewood, ...
American Songwriter1d
5 Well-Known Rap Hits With a Classic Rock Sample as a Backbone
When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...