Doechii didn't give the typical awards show speech after winning best female hip-hop artist at the BET Awards.

The Message, a gritty indictment of the city’s failed institutions, is broadly viewed as the origin of political hip-hop in the US. “You are into the blowback against the civil rights and ...

But defenders point out how hip-hop has retained its anti-establishment roots, being invoked by young people and political activists globally, from Pretoria to Palestine. And despite all the talk ...

This year, the musical, cultural, political and economic phenomenon that is hip-hop officially turned 50, with hip-hop’s origin traced back to a back-to-school party in the Bronx on August 11, 1973.

Beyond being a billboard sensation and generating celebrity artists, hip-hop culture and art are still as youthful and popular as ever far beyond where they originated. Social and political power ...

11 as the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. “Hip-hop,” the bill declares, “has evolved as a platform to advocate for social, political, and economic needs of all people, including environmental ...

Or as Bakari Kitwana puts it, “Hip-hop has always been political because of the context in which it was created.” In New York City, the genre first flourished in depressed economic conditions ...

For much of that time, the art form – which encompasses rap music, graffiti, DJing and break dancing – was either demonized by the political system or ignored. In the 1980s, Mayor Ed Koch dreamed of ...

Berg made the greatest documentary on hip-hop and rap music ever from the microphone with ‘The Art of Rap.’ This is sort of like a second part sequeling into the socio political ground.