Hip Hop

Melvin Noble was gunned down in the middle of the day in 2020 on Interstate 35E in Dallas. Markies Conway is accused of hiring a hitman.

G$ Lil Ronnie and his 5-year-old daughter were shot and killed on Monday morning.

The Hip Hop Orchestra Experience blends classical music with hip-hop rhymes. Experience this concert and dance party this spring at the Eisemann Center.

All the places you should go if you’re a fan of rap and hip-hop.

Hip-hop celebrates its golden anniversary this year. Created at a block party on August 11, 1973 in the Bronx, NY, the young(ish) genre has had a transformative influence on the culture and academic scene of Dallas.

Hip-hop pioneers honored with films and performances in August

A new book tells the story of the influential Houston producer with interviews of the people who knew and worked with him.

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Larry 'Lak' Henderson, the Hiphop Educator.

The Rap Game champion and self-proclaimed "Queen Of Da Souf" performs three songs for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.

When DJ Screw started trending in August, it wasn’t because of newly discovered music or a coordinated effort by his devoted fans. The chatter surrounded a TikTok video that quickly went viral for all the wrong reasons: a teen attempting to explain a “new” music trend called “slowed and reverb.” The problem — as Twitter unforgivingly pointed out —was that it was nearly a direct copy of DJ Screw’s iconic sound.

The Houston-based dancer-turned-rapper, part of the successful trio Geto Boys, was one of the first to bring cinematically macabre imagery to rap lyricism.

How do you get kids interested in science? You have them rap about it. At least that’s what some schools around the country are doing as featured in this…