A local woman is taking inspiration from the nearly 40-year-old music video "Self-Destruction" to encourage Hampton Roads ...

1996 marked a turning point in hip-hop production. The boom-bap that dominated early ’90s New York started fragmenting into ...

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Jan. 11-17 include rapper-actor LL Cool J, actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus and ...

Keeping up with music news and resources like Spotify’s giant and regularly updated New Music Friday playlist are great ways to keep your listening habits from getting stale. Sometimes, though, you ...

Passing the Crown unites female emcees, breakers, and DJs with female classical musicians to combat the underrepresentation of women of color in music Zuri Appleby, Lindsay Niccs, and Rachel Francis ...

For over 50 years, Hip-Hop has gifted the culture as we know it with a great deal. Not only has the genre introduced us to world-class talent, often taking up space in our hearts and memories, but ...

Lincoln Center will present free and Choose-What-You-Pay events throughout October 2025, including the Festival of Firsts, Passing the Crown with MC Lyte and Rapsody, the Legacies of San Juan Hill ...

MC Lyte is foundational—Queens-born, Brooklyn-bred, and indisputably part of the city’s musical backbone. When she wants the New York energy without the rush, her blueprint is blissfully unfussy. In ...

It’s been nearly a decade since MC Lyte released new music, but the rapper is back and better than ever. Suggested Reading Atlanta Nightlife Insiders Respond to 21 Savage’s Claim That the City’s Club ...

Jermaine Dupri is gearing up to take over the Essence Festival of Culture stage to honor his late friend, mentor and music icon Quincy Jones in New Orleans this weekend. "This is the Blackest festival ...

MC Lyte’s style evolution reads like a vibrant love letter to hip‑hop’s legacy. It’s bold, unapologetic, and endlessly elegant. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, she dominated stages and street corners ...

Missy Elliott is a legend, the best-selling female rapper of all time and the first to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Born in 1971 in Virginia, Melissa Arnette Elliott began making ...