Chika Takai moved from Tokyo to Atlanta as a student, later becoming a dancer and DJ for the Atlanta Hawks. When Megan Thee Stallion’s viral 2024 hit “Mamushi” was released, listeners were surprised ...

Hip-hop history traces back to the early 1970s disco and house party scene in New York City. Block parties in the Bronx became spaces where DJs experimented with music by isolating breakbeats to ...

A new exhibit in Madison highlights Wisconsin's hidden hip-hop history. Curated by Gregory Doby and Menkhu Meri Maat, the exhibit runs through early September. The exhibit emphasizes community impact ...

Tama L. Brisbane is Stockton’s Poet Laureate Emerita and a literary and performing arts consultant. I watched a new era in Stockton’s hip-hop scene come of age. Moving to the Central Valley city in ...

The birth of the art form that became hip-hop is traced back, in music legend, to a party in the South Bronx, some 50 years ago. DJ Kool Herc spun his turntables on August 11, 1973, introducing a now ...

I watched a new era in Stockton’s hip-hop scene come of age. Moving to the Central Valley city in the early 2000s, I found a hip-hop community that was its own form of resistance. Smoldering ...