Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song written by Vivian Medithi and Nadine Smith. While Brazil’s contemporary baile funk scene is one of the most boundary-pushing and forward-thinking ...

On August 11, 1973, Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx. Her brother Clive, better known as DJ Kool Herc, was enlisted to DJ, and he used the occasion to ...

Back when hip-hop was seeping out of New York City and becoming the soundtrack of urban American, red states preferred the rootsy melodies of country music. In those years, the idea of combining the ...