As an immigrant’s son, I’d grown up feeling alone and out of place, but the "Hamilton" soundtrack spoke to me.

Contributing Writer for The Prospect Gavin McLoughlin reviews the Black Arts Company’s recent performance “After Hours.” ...

Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. November is Hip-Hop History Month — Congress officially designated it last year — and the Bay Area is ...

World Hip Hop International, and World of Dance Summit: Super 24 is an international dance competition held in Singapore, with teams having line-ups of 24 members. Super 24 features an 8-by-8 ...

November 25, 2024 • Lamar already won the year in a landslide. On his bristly new album, GNX, the rapper aims to change the state of play for everyone else.

Since its earliest days, hip-hop has been inherently political – a powerful vehicle to deliver messages society needs to hear. Through the spoken word, its MCs have often conveyed the politics ...

I’m a rapper. I also work as a professor of hip-hop. I work at the intersection of artmaking and academic research. I write music as part of a greater effort to challenge antiquated ideas about ...

2024 has been filled with hip-hop highlights. While the culture experiences celebratory moments, the rap world has also been shaken multiple times due to the deaths of members of the hip-hop ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums ... which is a truly unexpected mashup of alt-indie sounds, funkwave dance floor fillers, and African diaspora riddims that explores all the ways ...

The Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar beef took over the hip-hop world in 2024, but the rappers had been trading barbs for years ...

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