Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; photos: Vince Bucci, Michael Loccsiano, Kevin C. Cox, Elsa / Getty Images No sport embodies hip-hop more than basketball. No music genre embodies ...

Fred Brathwaite—better known as Fab 5 Freddy—contains multitudes. Born and raised in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, he grew up in a house steeped in books, music, and radical Black consciousness. Skipping school ...

When I ask Chuck D, the legendary Public Enemy frontman, whether he ever thought the group that revolutionized hip-hop would still be active after 40 years, he replies matter-of-factly, with a casual ...

Innings Festival 2026 is back at Tempe Beach Park with Mumford and Sons, Myles Smith and more. Here are the best, worst ...

Politics is the enemy of art. When art is conscripted into a cause, it risks shrinking into instruction. This is not a novel idea. Albert Camus warned that art pressed into ideological service ...

While in Italy, the students produced digital and broadcast packages, social media campaigns and editorial stories.

Tony Saxon was hired to supervise the transformation of a $57 million "architectural treasure" into an "off-the-grid" bunker for the hip-hop artist now known as Ye.

Journalist Yi-Ling Liu’s The Wall Dancers traces how the Internet affected daily life in China, showing how similar this ...

In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...

On March 14, 1995, California rapper Tupac Shakur broke records by becoming the first male solo artist to score a Billboard ...

We went out to clean a river. The police went out to clean us off the street. This is what happens when doing something good looks suspicious enough to get you cuffed. Welcome to the upside-down world ...