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 ...

In the aftermath of America's racial and political reckoning in 2020, the perspectives and stories shared in Hip Hop are key to understanding injustice in the U.S. over the last half-century.

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.

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 ...

Larry Hoover, 74, denounced his past and has been locked up for more than 50 years. But Trump is hardly the harbinger of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Toward the end of the decade, organizers in New York and beyond started organizing hip-hop benefit concerts to advocate for Black liberation and the release of political prisoners. The movement ...

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.

But by the late 1970s and early 1980s, Black decorum had reached its political limit. Gordy’s big new star was the magnetically louche Rick James, a hip-hop progenitor. The early rappers weren ...