A HIP-HOP artist is facing a long, “expensive journey” following a harrowing assault in Limerick city that has left him partially blind. Tobi Omoteso, co-founder of Limerick‘s annual Top 8 Hip Hop & ...

Hip hop has been the soundtrack of my life. When I close my eyes, I can still feel the walk to elementary school—morning light low and pale, sneakers darkening with dew—and hear myself half-whispering ...

The team took home 2nd place for their Kendrick-inspired hip-hop set. The Louisiana State University Dance Team is coming off a season with major wins for their hip-hop and Jazz performances. As the ...

Dallas-Fort Worth hip-hop has become a hotspot for discovering the next superstar. With New Dallas being the talk of the city, the drill scene’s undeniable popularity and boogie music making a ...

We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...

“So, when did you fall in love with Hip Hop?” is a question that Sidney (Sanaa Lathan), a Hip Hop journalist, poses at the very beginning of the 2002 film, Brown Sugar. And, consequently, everyone ...

Is rhythm learned or is it inherited? In Rennie Harris’ American Street Dancer we explore how rhythm and percussion can travel, and has in fact traveled, through time, lineage, and lived experience.

Mr. Wave recalls growing up watching Michael Jackson’s “Dancing Machine” until he becomes a legend in the movie Beat Street. Before the internet, before TikTok trends, a Bronx kid made his body move ...

In 1991 the Rennie Harris Puremovement American Street Dance Theater was founded, creating simultaneously the term “street dance theater” and the first ever hip-hop company. Since then, the company ...

The high priest of hip hop, street dance ambassador, a living legend—all these epithets, often bestowed upon Rennie Harris, ring true in announcing what he represents in American culture and beyond ...

More than a dozen dancers from across the Western U.S. competed in a hip-hop dance battle earlier this month. Dancers from Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and other cities competed in Phoenix for the ...

A man dances at a Summer Cypher event in 2017 at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis in August 2024. Credit: Kimani Beard When the stakes are high, access to information is essential. The energy of ...