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Beastie boys: they were once a band of rhyming hopefuls who were dismissed as a novelty act. But two decades later, and with a new album, they're at the Nearly 20 years ago, three hip-hop-obsessed Jewish teenagers from New York City--Adam "Adrock" Horovitz, Michael "Mike D" Diamond, ......(Continue Reading) Who's playin' whom? Overwhelming influence of hip-hop culture, rap music on HBCU campuses concerns students, faculty In December 2000, Dr. Thomas Earl Midgette had harsh words for the hip-hop movement that was sweeping his campus. When he was interviewed for an article ......(Continue Reading)OutKast: music's favorite odd couple breaks the hip-hop mold - Cover Story OutKast, one of hip-hop's greatest rap duos ever, is presenting by far the riskiest material that the group has released in its 10-year career. The sixth and newest project Speakerboxxx/The Love Be...(Continue Reading)The 10 best dressed Black men from hip-hop to Wall Street - Man style FROM Jack Johnson, who knocked them out with uppercuts and dashing British tweeds, to Bojangles Robinson to Malcolm X, who was always clean, and Martin, ......(Continue Reading)Check it While I Wreck it: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere Gwendolyn Pough Northeastern University Press ISBN# 1555536077 ......(Continue Reading)
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