JOINING THE CONVERSATION ABOUT HIP HOP’S LEGACY, A CAMP FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IS CENTERED AROUND THE HISTORY AND CORE VALUES. KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S KALE SEARCY TAKES US TO HIP-HOP LAB.

The Sole Lab Hip Hop Festival returned to the Main Library at Goodwood following a rain out earlier in the year to celebrate 50 years of Hip Hop. Hosted by Mark Dub and DJ Sole Lab, local performers ...

When a band takes the stage, it's usually in one of three manners: a) they begin rocking and try to glue your face to the back of your skull as quickly as possible; b) they say something akin to ...

No one told Pierce Freelon that the chancellor would be here. But early on a Friday evening, UNC-Chapel Hill’s newest leader, Carol Folt, walks into the opening reception of the Chapel Hill Community ...

Rap Research Lab continues what hip hop has been doing for the past half century: playfully rearranging the words, sounds, and textures of postwar American pop music. Installation view of Tahir ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — When you step into the gallery at University of Maryland, Baltimore County's Fine Arts Building, one of the first things you see is a large multicolored graph on the wall. On it are ...

Tahir Hemphill was immersed in a technical environment at a very young age. He attended specialized schools and eventually pursued a dual-degree engineering program at Morehouse College and the ...

The Theatre & Dance Department is proud to house CU Boulder’s interdisciplinary certificate in Hip-Hop Studies. This consolidated certificate program for matriculated undergraduate and graduate ...

People of Crypto Lab (POClab), a Web3 creative studio, has announced a virtual experience dubbed Cultureverse, in partnership with Walmart, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop and celebrate ...

Peel back the production layers used to make hip-hop and drum & bass and you'll find a common strand of DNA: samples. When jungle emerged in early 1990s England, the music borrowed from dub and ...

For the uninitiated, the assumption is that rappers don’t exactly have extensive vocabularies. Sure, old fogeys might say, the average rapper might be equipped with a surprising armory of synonyms for ...

Installation view of Tahir Hemphill: Rap Research Lab at the Center for Art, Design & Visual Culture at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (all images courtesy the artist, photos by Tedd Henn) ...