The good folks at The Pudding, using fancy math and advanced statistics, have determined both the most hip-hop word and the least. While “sailed” pops up way less in rap than in other genres, many of ...
To English teachers, the dictionary and thesaurus are unimpeachable testaments to how words should be used. To rappers, the contents of those hallowed rule books are endlessly malleable, subject to ...
Adin Ross just dropped a bombshell that’s got the Hip-Hop community talking. The white Kick streamer straight-up admitted he uses the N-word when rapping along to songs, and he’s not backing down from ...
A human rights professor was fired after leading a discussion about the N-word with students, saying the word should be banned from rap music. That’s what the administration at George Washington ...
Many of us millennial and Gen Z'ers grew up with hip-hop, discovering its amazingness through either MTV, BET, or our Gen X parent's collection of CD's. Throughout my childhood, I would snag my mom ...
Quick: Which of the following words would you expect to hear in a rap track? Actually, the answer is all of the above, thanks to the appearance of a new music CD that uses rap to help high-school ...
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) annually hosts “Word. Sound. Power., ” a multi-disciplinary amalgamation of hip-hop, spoken word, dancing and theatrics. This year’s series theme, “Word: The New ...
Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on Email Share on Bluesky All of that dialogue and thinking led to some great connections and most importantly started a conversation that was overdue. But I ...
Not long after we completed the second or third Word of South Festival of Literature and Music here in Tallahassee, someone said to me, “So, you’re doing a festival related to words and music, and you ...
Loud, proud, and here — 2020 was a breakthrough year for women in hip-hop, with Megan Thee Stallion’s Grammy win for Best New Artist, Niki Minaj and Doja Cat’s smooth chart topper “Say So,” and Cardi ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and hip-hop icon Darryl “DMC” McDaniels says the New York police commissioner’s recent comments — where he labeled rappers as thugs following a shooting at ...