Articles A Fiery Reminder That Black Lives Matter From a Hip-Hop Artist Rhyming Behind Bars Tasbeeh HerweesJul 10, 2015
Articles Ja Rule and Kanye's Online Pick-Me-Ups Ja Rule tunes to fit your current emotional state and Kanye quotes for the narcissist in us all.Caroline Pham13 Aug, 2014
Articles It's Time We Stop and Frisk Our Education System For Traditions That Perpetuate Hate Andre Perry24 Feb, 2014
Articles This Week in Beat Making: A Mashup of 'The Star Spangled Banner' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' "Lift Every Spangled Banner" is a mashup that addresses independence for all.Pierce Freelon05 Jul, 2013
Articles Snoop Lion on Gun Control: End the Violence, Move Forward in Peace and Love Growing up in the streets of Long Beach, I’ve seen lots of homies fall victim to gun violence.Snoop Lion13 Jun, 2013
Articles Compton, Who? With a $70 Million Donation, it's 'Dre Day' For Elite USC In the fall of 2014, 25 students who probably won't be coming from the City of Compton will start in Dr. Dre's $70 million program at USC.Liz Dwyer18 May, 2013
Articles Swapping C.R.E.A.M. for STEM: Wu-Tang's GZA Helps Kids Learn Science With Hip Hop Ready to spit rhymes about biology and physics? GZA's Science Genius hip hop experiment is making it cool for urban youth.Liz Dwyer31 Mar, 2013
Articles Spitting Rhymes and Firing Synapses: Freestyle Rap Battles Could Boost Student Creativity The creativity that freestyle requires exercises your brain in unique ways.Liz Dwyer06 Dec, 2012
Articles Real Food Justice: From Black Panther Party Roots to Hip Hop Activism, Foodies with Fists Liz Dwyer24 Nov, 2012
Articles Hip Hop Group Pens Track Praising Striking Chicago Teachers Rebel Diaz rhymes "The CEOS need to get up out the classroom before these streets get hotter than the sand in Cancun!"Liz Dwyer19 Sep, 2012
Articles Intermission: "Shake the Dust" Chronicles Hip-Hop's Global Reach Filmmaker Adam Sjoberg explored some overlooked petri dishes of hip-hop in the Middle East and Africa and finds a growing social change movement.Zachary Slobig23 Aug, 2012
Articles The Grandfather of Hip-Hop Is Teaching at Cornell Bambaataa's the first major hip-hop artist to get a university appointment.Liz Dwyer17 Aug, 2012
Articles What Generation Overshare Can Learn From Biggie My generation has come of age with hip hop, and we’ve borrowed the language of illegal hustlers to describe our legal hustles.Mychal Denzel Smith05 Apr, 2012
Articles How Hip-Hop Lost Faith in Obama: A Lesson in Lyrics The fervor of the 2008 election has dimmed virtually every place you look. Obama’s nods in rap songs are no exception.Tanveer Ali29 Nov, 2011
Articles Behind the Eli Porter Rap Battle: Is This the First Meme Documentary? A new short film digs deep into the most infamous amateur rap battle in internet history.Cord Jefferson23 Jul, 2011
Articles If 50 Cent Thinks Bullies Are Bad, Maybe He Should Stop Egging Them On If 50 Cent is penning a young adult novel to raise awareness about bullying, perhaps he should chill with his own violent and homophobic messages.Nona Willis Aronowitz23 Jun, 2011
Articles What Teachers Can Learn from Hip-Hop Culture Hip hop's premium on fresh new ideas and entrepreneurship could be exactly what's needed to save our schools.Liz Dwyer19 May, 2011