Akai just announced the MPC XL standalone studio. This unit is around four times as powerful as previous MPC grooveboxes.

TruArtSpeak brings new hip-hop program to the Children’s Museum; art shanties return to Lake Harriet; a brewery book fair in Minneapolis and Congolese music at St. Paul’s Como Zoo conservatory.

"Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta" cast members Scrappy, Karlie Redd, Yandy Smith, Kirk Frost Rasheeda Frost, Spice and Joc (Courtesy of MTV) MTV’s “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta” has set a February premiere date ...

It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

31 years ago, the late The Notorious B.I.G. released Big Poppa, a record that would permanently shift his trajectory and reshape how Hip Hop crossed into the mainstream. Arriving as a single from his ...

A new episode of “Love & Hip Hop: Miami” will premiere on Tuesday, December 23. The hit docu-soap franchise “Love & Hip Hop” turns up the heat in Miami and doesn’t hold back for season 7. The series ...

MIAMI — “Love & Hip Hop: Miami” is back for a seventh season. The show, which follows the lives of some of Miami’s most influential personalities of the culture, is saying adios with a season that ...

We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...

The long-running debate over Hip-Hop and Rap continues to shape global music culture, yet many listeners still struggle to understand the true difference between the two. The world of music is often ...

Hip-hop is more than beats and bravado. Hip-hop is more than beats and bravado. It is a cultural force that can change any stage it touches. Over the years, a growing group of artists has moved from ...

“So, when did you fall in love with Hip Hop?” is a question that Sidney (Sanaa Lathan), a Hip Hop journalist, poses at the very beginning of the 2002 film, Brown Sugar. And, consequently, everyone ...

The drama in the 305 is heating up as “Love & Hip Hop: Miami” returns with season 7, episode 3, titled “Wife On The Line” today, Tuesday Nov. 18, at 8 p.m. Eastern on BET. Where can I watch “Love & ...