Since 1973, hip-hop has been a megaphone for Black men. The mental health struggles, sexual awakenings, and aging revelations have been shared worldwide in its lyrics and advocacy. To celebrate ...

Within the continuous additions to and retellings of music history, a genre such as hip-hop is usually caught within efforts to categorize and explain its origins, which happened largely outside of ...

Independent label entrepreneur Bobby Robinson, whose career spanned the worlds of ’50s R&B and first-generation ’70s rap, died Jan. 7 in New York. He was 93, according to a blog post by Dan Charnas, ...