Masters of the Mic hip-hop show coming to Tuscaloosa this summer
Masters of the Mic, featuring Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick, MC Lyte, Big Daddy Kane, Treach and EPMD will play Mercedes-Benz ...
Hip-Hop for the Infinite Scroll
He’s the undisputed main character of hip-hop for listeners his age and younger, and Music, his first album since 2020, is ...
Saba and No ID’s ‘From the Private Collection’ Is a Cross-Generational Labor of Hip-Hop Love
Saba and No ID are two legends of Chicago hip-hop, from two different generations. Saba is the cerebral rap poet who made his name with corrosively pained classics like 2018’s Care for Me and 2022’s ...
Party with gas, play with fire: the dangerous renaissance of ‘whippets’ in the music scene
The compound is known colloquially among recreational drug users as “whippets,” "balloons," “hippie crack” or “Galaxy Gas,” ...
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A Rapper for the Ketamine Era
It’s an assertion of Carti’s eminence in popular music, as attested by the album’s features by hip-hop’s reigning ... drugs. The old standbys of party rap—molly, cocaine, lean—show ...
From Kendrick Lamar To Beyoncé: How Sampling Keeps Black Music History Alive
Sampling isn’t just recycling old sounds—it’s a powerful form of musical storytelling that bridges generations, honors ...
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Remembering Roberta Flack: 10 Hip-Hop Songs That Sampled The Legendary Vocalist
Hip-Hop Wired has compiled 10 songs that sampled Roberta Flack’s music. My first time hearing Roberta Flack occurred when I was in elementary school via the song “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” a ...
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Junior high bans hip-hop dancing in school club, sparking outrage
Mitsuko Isoda, an education professor at Saitama University who wrote a book on how to use hip-hop and rap music in school curriculums, said that there may be a gap between the older generation ...
In Dallas With Erykah Badu, a True Original Who’s Prepping Her First Album in 15 Years
In 2015, while on an apparent hiatus, Badu released a remix of Drake’s gargantuan smash “Hotline Bling.” Produced by the ...
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'It proved the US's biggest gangsta rapper could be vulnerable': How Tupac wrote the ultimate anthem for single mothers
The iconic 90s hip ... Rap Songs chart, just as the album went to number one too; it was accompanied by a music video, featuring Afeni beaming with pride while looking through old photos of ...