The elephant in the room is that Hip Hop has always had an issue with women. Whether it’s marginalizing early artists like Sha-rock and Roxane Shante or the casual misogynoir that is rampant in rap lyrics to this day, there … Continue reading 30 Day National Hip Hop History Month Challenge Day 28: Yo, praise me not for being simply what I am

So my sister’s fiancée was a volunteer DJ at a radio station- a couple of times a week, he had sets that were a couple of hours or so and it was fun to listen to occasionally even though it … Continue reading 30 Day National Hip Hop History Month Challenge Day 27:the South got somethin’ to say

What’s crackin’, Hip Hop history month community! The month is quickly coming to an end, but we have a few more challenges left to continue in our celebration and discussion of hip hop culture and music. We were on the … Continue reading 30 Day National Hip Hop History Month Challenge Day 26: With so much drama in the LBC

What’s good, Hip Hop History community- readers, lurkers, posters, enthusiasts, neophytes, and err’ybody! We took a look through the decades of hip hop history, and now we’re going through the spaces of hip hop history, an integral part of its … Continue reading 30 Day National Hip Hop History Month Challenge Day 25: Now honeys play me close like butter play toast / From the Mississippi down to the East Coast

We all know that the music video has been an integral part of hip hop culture from its earliest iterations. That’s how we know how to do the Humpty Dance, how to get those Adidas looking just right, and that … Continue reading 30 Day National Hip Hop History Month Challenge Day 24: Shake it like a Polaroid picture!

Hello Hip Hop History community! HP in the building even on Thanksgiving Day here in the US to set out one that is hopefully not too vague to get a few posts going.. Today we’re talking the single. Back in … Continue reading 30 Day National Hip Hop History Month Challenge Day 23: You got what I need

Whether it’s an artist who has already made a name for themselves on other songs or hip hop projects, or a rapper who is introducing themselves to a widespread audience, a debut album has a singular significance. Throughout the years … Continue reading 30 Day National Hip Hop History Month Challenge Day 22: Haven’t you heard this change of rhyme

Ok, Hip Hop enthusiasts, community, lurkers, commenters, neophytes..err’ybody. It’s your girl HP over here with an actual pen and pad of paper for this day’s challenge! Everybody went through some things in 2020; it was impossible not to. And here … Continue reading 30 Day National Hip Hop History Month Challenge Day 21: You better shine on ’em baby, you a star

Yo yo yo Hip Hop History community! We’re still in the time machine, but we’re getting closer to the present, closer to that half century. The maximalist/backpacker/regional/hip hop takes over the cultural landscape of the late 1990s through the beginning … Continue reading 30 Day National Hip Hop History Month Challenge Day 20: I don’t dance now, I make money moves

Greetings, Hip Hop History Month time travelers! HP back again to give space today to the 2000s. I think about this decade as the victory lap for hip-hop: over the 30ish years of its existence the music continued to push … Continue reading 30 Day National Hip Hop History Month Challenge Day 19: We gonna make it

What’s good, Hip Hop History Month community! One fascinating thing has become very clear very quickly as we work our way through the chronological decades of hip hop history: the development of the genre is far, far from linear. And … Continue reading 30 Day National Hip Hop History Month Challenge Day 18: Cash Rules Everything Around Me