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 ...

Music executive Nota Baloyi ruffled feathers when he dragged musician Usimamane after he made South African Hip Hop history ...

Multi-award-winning rapper Nasty C made headlines after he went down in the history books of South African music with his ...

Nowhere has that been more obvious than in the youthful, fast-growing cities of Africa in recent decades. The first breakout commercial hits of American hip-hop, like Sugar Hill Gang’s Rapper ...

Slick Rick continues to set blueprints with the release his first album in 26 years, ‘Victory,’ a cinematic visual work that ...

By Gail Mitchell Well, 2024 is quickly drawing to a close. And what an eventful year it was in R&B/hip-hop and African music. No doubt still uppermost in the minds of many is the epic feud between ...

Hip-hop is a multi-billion-dollar industry and the world’s most popular music genre. Originating in the South Bronx in the 1970s by African American and Latino communities in response to ...

A brand-new festival celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop music is coming to Ohio State Saturday. Ohio State’s School of Music and Department of African American and African Studies ...