From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the ...

Questlove has had a remarkable career so far. He started as the drummer in Philadelphia's boundary-breaking hip-hop band The Roots. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE NEXT MOVEMENT") BLACK THOUGHT: (Rapping) ...

Shea Serrano is a fabulous human being. For a long time, he wrote regular features here like Artist of the Week, Five Spot and time-stamped stream-of-consciousness concert reviews that people would ...

Questlove's "Hip-Hop Is History" could end up being one of the year's most expensive books. I'm not talking about the book itself, which is a standard hardcover $30, but about the music it'll make you ...

“I'm in the lion's den,” Questlove blurts out before I can ask the first question, with a laugh that confirms he’s being eaten alive online. It was either the perfect pitch for a book that chronicles ...

Little Bee Books has secured the rights to publish nine titles based on rapper Snoop Dogg’s 3D-animated hip-hop music video ...

The Grammy-winning musician will release the book through his book imprint, AUWA Books Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms ...

Dr. Todd Boyd is the Katherine and Frank Price Endowed Chair for the Study of Race & Popular Culture and Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Dr. Todd Boyd was ...

Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. In 2009, The Roots became the ...