Central to hip-hop culture are its four original elements: DJing, MCing (or rapping), graffiti art, and breaking (which is also known as breakdancing, b-boying and b-girling). DJing laid the ...

Richard “Crazy Legs” Colon, the Hip-Hop icon and PRS Festival founder, announced that he’ll convene all the elements of Hip-Hop into one immersive community-based event. However, the main ...

creating new forms of expression that reflect local experiences while maintaining hip-hop’s core elements. Music critics and scholars play a crucial role in analyzing how hip-hop lyrics reflect ...

Here is the best of hip-hop this week ending April 4, 2025. A debut that shouldn’t be overlooked, I decided to include Chy’s No Bring Ins off the strength of a cursory listen this week because ...

The film directed by Tariq Nasheed, is the first to cover all five elements of hip-hop and their origins, with direct testimony from the genre’s founders.

composer and arranger best known for his atmospheric instrumental mixes sampling from hip hop, soul, and jazz, as well as incorporating elements of trip hop, breakbeat, downtempo, and ambient music.

The complexity of mother-child relationships provides fertile ground for artistic expression, with hip-hop artists often revealing ... The production incorporates soulful elements that complement ...

According to Wallace, there is a strong intersection between spoken word poetry and hip-hop music. “The elements of hip hop … include emceeing, breakdancing, graffiti, DJing and knowledge of self. And ...

What a difference a year makes. At the end of 2023, GloRilla, Latto and Doechii had each earned namesake notoriety and steady rotation in playlists. Repping Memphis, Atlanta and Tampa, they stood ...

Pyramidal Productions, a Madison-based media and arts organization dedicated to uplifting underrepresented voices through ...