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Diss tracks and beef culture are not just about fights; they enhance creativity as rappers sharpen their skills. They often become important parts of pop culture and create buzz among fans.
We cannot understand the last fifty years of U.S. history—certainly not the first thing about Black history—without studying the emergence and evolution of rap.
History was made on Aug. 11, 1973, when Clive Campbell took to the stage at his sister’s back-to-school party in the Bronx. Legend has it that behind two turn-tables, Campbell played two copies of the same record—a technique known as the merry-go-round, where one moves back and forth, from one r...
KRS-One is one of the legends of hip-hop, but before the fame, he was a teenage runaway who ended up in a homeless shelter. That became the source of his rap name and the place where he met his partner DJ Scott La Rock. Scott was a counselor at one of the shelters KRS stayed at. They talked about hip-hop, formed a duo that rewrote hip-hop history, and lifted KRS out of homelessness.
During his conversation with Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings, the hosts of Earn Your Leisure podcast, Ice Cube unequivocally proclaimed his 1991 rec...