This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities ...

The song has already garnered attention from fans, with the original version hitting the UK iTunes Top 30 Rap/Hip Hop Songs chart in November 2023. Now, with the clean edit release, King Jesai is ...

Filmmaker Byron Hurt, a former fan of hip-hop turned arch critic, has jumped into the fight, trying to knock out rap’s woes with a new documentary, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, which airs ...

Even if the origin of hip-hop is given a specific starting point in history, this article argues that the practice of rapping is bound to a larger history.