Explore how hip-hop aesthetics influence modern online entertainment—from gaming visuals to digital culture and interactive design. Hip-hop has always been more than just a genre of music. Culture has ...

Marya Summers has a lot of exposed flesh and most of it is covered in Sharpie marker. Poetic phrases like "Words begin the ending they began" and "My children will be named things like Fucknut" adorn ...

You might have the “bling bling.” But do you know how to “be geese in your bima?” Some hip-hop artists coming to Glenwood Springs do.On Sunday the Colorado Mountain College Center for Excellence in ...

A look at hip-hop’s transformative impact in honor of its 50th anniversary. Hip-hop was once narrowly thought of as a trend in music that would ultimately fizzle out. Now, at its 50th anniversary, hip ...

In this wide-ranging, academic anthology of essays, interviews and panel discussions, 2005 American Book Award–winner Jeff Chang (Can't Stop, Won't Stop) presents hip-hop's past, present and future as ...

With roots that stretch from West Africa through the black pulpit, hip-hop emerged in the streets of the South Bronx in the 1970s and has spread to the farthest corners of the earth. This book ...

*Jeff Chang is a new sage thinker with his finger on the pulse. His first book, the critically-acclaimed “Can’t Stop Wont Stop: A history of the Hip-Hop Generation,” collected a cornucopia of honors, ...