In the aftermath of the huge outpouring of critical respect for Kendrick Lamar’s album To Pimp a Butterfly, Getintothis’ Jimmy Coultas looks at the importance another crucial contribution. Kendrick Lamar’s third album To Pimp a Butterfly has been...

Visit NPR to listen to The Remix w/ Ahki Dr. James Peterson. This weekly podcast takes a fresh look at how race, culture and politics intersect. Dr. James Peterson, director of Africana Studies and associate professor of...

ON A COOL, RAINY afternoon in Austin, Texas, Young Guru—Jay-Z’s personal sound engineer for the past 16 years—was giving a master class on recording and mixing techniques at Dub Academy, a music school and studio east of...

Hip-hop has made its way into the academy and is increasingly becoming accepted as a legitimate field of inquiry, with many top universities around the country offering classes in hip-hop studies,  exploring not only hip-hop as a musical genre...