For amateur hip-hop hopefuls, O'Mallys is tantamount to Ed McMahon's auditioning den. The club, essentially a sports bar tailored to an urban-music-loving crowd, with dance floor and plush booths ...

Dennis Lee's radio show, which broadcasts every Tuesday night out of the student center at Rice University, is three hours of unadulterated hip-hop ecstasy. Lee scours the earth looking for ...

June 28, 2003: The heavyweights of hip-hop – Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Missy Elliott and Busta Rhymes – descended on Montage Mountain for the “Rock the Mic” tour on the last Saturday in June. Tickets cost ...

2003: 14 years ago today, Diddy ran the 2003 New York City Marathon. Despite the naysayers, doctors disapproval and only eight weeks of training for the 26 mile run, Diddy managed to make it happen.

A new series spotlighting underground music in both rock and hip-hop, a revamp of long-running request show “Control Freak” and the triumphant return of 1980s heavy-metal paean “Headbanger’s Ball” ...

Cultural phenomena never truly come out of nowhere or pop up out of the ether without proper warning. There’s always some sort of grassroots movement that precedes the mainstream tidal wave that ...

As evidenced by everyone from Kem to Slum Village, D12 to Eminem, Detroit is no longer the perennial bridesmaid to New York and LA on the scope of national hip hop. We’re not just talking sales ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “I don’t eat anything that runs away from me,” says Russell Simmons, by way of ...

Hip hop is commercially hot, culturally influential and replete with references to pimping and prostitution. Critics say this not only sends teens a pro-pimp message, it puts some girls even more at ...

Rap music often revolves around the artist, who gets the accolades, adoration and top billing. But at one time, there was a clear understanding in hip-hop that the DJ was at the top of the food chain.

You have to get past the awkward hip-hop lingo of the University of Miami's collegiate disc jockeys, but once you do, The Hip-Hop Shop is good listening. Songs range from classics to new (and ...