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Hip-hop’s creator economy evolves with new digital tools

Hip-hop’s creator economy evolves with new digital tools Hip-hop’s roots in personalization and collaboration are intersecting with emerging digital tools and creator economy models, transforming how ...
The Source

Hip-Hop, High Fashion, and the Cultural Weight of Hermes Online USA

The relationship between hip-hop and high fashion is not a new story. For decades, artists have used luxury goods as both personal expression and social commentary, turning designer labels into ...
The Austin Chronicle

“Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit” Comes to LBJ Library

Egyptian Lover's Roland TR-808 drum machine is customized with hieroglyphics and themed patterns Credit: Jay Godwin / LBJ Presidential Library Hip-hop is officially middle-aged, but its mortality is ...
The Source Magazine

The Evolution of Latin Hip-Hop

The late summer months of August and September celebrate both the anniversary of hip-hop as well as Hispanic heritage, a fitting combination since Hispanic culture and sound have had a significant ...
The Nation

Questlove’s Personal History of Hip-Hop

An elegiac retelling of rap’s origins, Hip-Hop Is History also ends with a sense of hope. Buffy (Darren Robinson) of the Fat Boys in Chicago, 1985. This Juneteenth featured, among other festivities, a ...
PBS

Celebrate National Hip-Hop Day With PBS

August 11 is National Hip-Hop Celebration Day! The celebration was made official by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer last July, following the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. In a speech on the Senate ...
Forbes

Building Health Equity Through Hip Hop Culture, A Neurologist Explains

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama flexes her muscles as she exercises with schoolchildren at the River Terrace School April 21, 2010 in Washington, DC. Mrs. Obama visited the school to highlight physical ...
The New York Times

How the NBA and hip-hop have inspired culture and each other for decades

Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; photos: Vince Bucci, Michael Loccsiano, Kevin C. Cox, Elsa / Getty Images No sport embodies hip-hop more than basketball. No music genre embodies ...
Essence

Hip Hop Finally Gets Its Flowers: Inside The Hip Hop Museum’s Star-Studded Gala

In the words of the legendary Notorious B.I.G., “you never thought that hip hop would take it this far.” And Wednesday night at Cipriani Wall Street proved exactly that: Hip hop isn’t only going far, ...
NPR

In an industry of conformity, Questlove remains a hip-hop iconoclast

“I'm in the lion's den,” Questlove blurts out before I can ask the first question, with a laugh that confirms he’s being eaten alive online. It was either the perfect pitch for a book that chronicles ...
National Basketball Association

The Athletic: How the NBA and hip-hop have inspired culture and each other for decades

Rapper Chuck D, of Public Enemy fame, is one of several who agree that basketball greats and hip-hop excellence share a similar foundation. Shakeia Taylor and Jason Jones, The Athletic For decades, ...