Shawn Carter, aka JAY-Z, speaks on his best selling book, “Decoded”. He also sheds light on the fact that rap/hip hop should be looked at..
The Hiphop Archive looks less like a research space and more like a well-kept living room. The walls are lined with numerous display cases, one..
Featured in The Harvard Crimson By Amy Friedman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER October 27, 2011 Joycelyn A. Wilson, a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute..
Hip-hop was just all right in 2013. Will the music we love be stronger in the new year?| Featured on Theroot.com Around the family dinner..
A Harvard hip-hop scholar compares the golden age to today’s era of violence and greed. | Featured on TheRoot.com “Common wrote One Day It’ll All Make..
The lyrical rapper, like his current rival Drake, also shows his emotional side at the BET Hip Hop Awards. | Featured on Theroot.com The Root)..
“Beat the odds. Beat the Feds. It wouldn’t be wise to bet against the kid.” Jay-Z and Kanye West, “Who Gon Stop Me”, Watch The..
“Me and the RZA connect… See, I just want ‘im to have an easy life, not like Yeezy life. Just want ‘im to be someone..
“I need a slow motion video right now. Cause I’m moving in slow motion, slow motion. Feelin’ like a Hype Williams shootin’ a… gootin a…,..
“I don’t even know what it means. No one knows what it means, but it’s provocative. No it’s not. It’s gross (Gets the people going.)”..