In a world saturated with hits and hooks, sometimes it’s the stitching on your cap or the print on your shirt that keeps the rhythm of your fandom beating strong. Underground hip-hop artists are ...

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Lord Sear, longtime DJ and hip-hop radio personality who worked closely with Eminem on his Shade 45 channel, has died. He was ...

AMSTERDAM, NL — The American underground officially crossing the Atlantic Swamplandz in Amsterdam descends upon the Netherlands for a one-night-only showcase of raw, unfiltered hip-hop energy. The ...

Hip-hop heads, music geeks, bounce fanatics and twerkers unite this Saturday, October 26 at the freshly re-opened Civic Theatre when the Fourth Annual NOLA Underground Hip Hop Awards take over the ...

ChiefDVB and Syntax Vernac tap into hip-hop teamwork on "The Farsighted," a 14-track LP featuring local emcees and producers ...

A Black Horizons special exploring Pittsburgh’s underground hip-hop scene and its four elements. This Black Horizons special documents Pittsburgh’s underground hip-hop community through its four ...

The National Hip-Hop Museum (NHHM) closed out the year by honoring hip-hop legends at their Hip-Hop Holiday Honors held at the historic Bethesda Theater on Dec. 28. The recognition was in conjunction ...

This year’s event featured compelling, creative performers joined by quite a few empty seats. T he tech crew, positioned in the back of the tent, had to squint over several dozen rows of empty seats ...

A lot of binaries we use are helpful; by placing parts of the world in opposing categories, we create order out of what is otherwise chaos. In the same vein, a lot of these binaries are also bullshit ...

On this day in Hip Hop history, legendary Texas duo UGK, Bun B and the late, great Pimp C, released their monumental double album Underground Kingz on August 7, 2007, via Jive Records. As UGK’s fifth ...