On this date in 1996, Brooklyn lyricist Jeru the Damaja returned to the front lines of Hip Hop with the release of his sophomore album Wrath of the Math on the Payday/PolyGram imprint. A core member ...

On this date a quarter-century ago, Gangstarr Foundation representative Jeru The Damaja of the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels dropped his sophomore LP Wrath Of The Math on the Payday/Polygram imprint.

Inside Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College, where southern gentility meets raw academic ambition, Dr. Joycelyn Wilson holds court with the easy confidence of someone who’s mastered the delicate art of ...

How to encompass half a century of hip-hop? You start by acknowledging you can’t. Too many stars, too many songs, too many places, too many scandals: Hip-hop is an entire universe — a musical genre, ...

The phenomenon has threaded through society since it was born in the Bronx in 1973. Hip-hop is on radio, television, fashion and sports arenas. This year the movement is celebrating a special birthday ...

Over the weekend battle rap legend, Math Hoffa confirmed that he would indeed be going one-on-one in a battle rap with the Wu-Tang swordsman known as as Method Man a.k.a. The Iron Lung a.k.a. Tical ...

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 industrial ...