I’m a rapper. I also work as a professor of hip-hop. I work at the intersection of artmaking and academic research. I write music as part of a greater effort to challenge antiquated ideas about ...
The 2024 MAMA Awards are underway, and the excitement is palpable. The three-day international K-pop awards ceremony is being held at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre (Nov. 21) and the Kyoawea Dome in Osaka, ...
By Billboard Japan Philosophy no Dance’s Mariri Okutsu chatted with Billboard Japan for its Women in Music interview series featuring female players in the Japanese entertainment industry.
LL Cool J’s debut album, ‘Radio,’ turned the MC into a hip-hop superstar and put the emerging Def Jam record label on the map. Young, confident, and ambitious, the man born James Todd Smith ...
Hip-hop got its start from New York’s boroughs of Brooklyn and the Bronx, where rappers made music from their tough circumstances. In China, the challenge is about finding what fits its context.