You can embrace fashion, culture and style on the runway or spend a family day at a farmhouse, there’s plenty of free things to do as February begins to wind down. Jersey club music has been around ...

Established in October, a group of first-year students set out to create Hip-Hop Club — a place for students to come together and learn about the genre in an engaging way. According to Hip-Hop Club’s ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Jan. 7, 2003: Twenty years ago, 50 Cent kicked off 2003 with the release of "In Da Club," the first single from his soon-to-be-released debut album ...

One night in August, a nondescript metal venue in suburban New Jersey, just north of Newark, is the epicenter of one of the most exciting trends in rap right now. At first, the teens who fill the ...

For November's First Look Friday, we spoke to New Jersey rapper Bandmanrill about his rise, club music, why he doesn't want to be associated drill rap, and more. “You have to have a lot of discipline ...

Last week, as Philadelphia’s, native son Lil Uzi Vert neared the end of his set at Roots Picnic, the music died out, and Uzi surveyed the crowd like a wrestler at the top of a turnbuckle, preparing ...

The streets of Los Angeles and Compton are synonymous with gangsta rap, but it was a small venue near East Hollywood at the corner of Melrose and Normandie avenues that helped launch the city’s ...

In the summer of 2020, Sesali Bowen was working on her memoir Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist. As she reflected on her experiences growing up in what she calls “the bad b-tch era,” she ...