The Jamaican-born architect, who first encountered hip-hop architecture as a student at Cornell in the mid-1990s, is on a mission to challenge urban development. TheGrio Staff Jun 9, 2022 ...

The Roots & Live Nation Urban Announce Roots Picnic: Hip-Hop is the Love of My Life For 2024 The inaugaurl event will take place on June 29, 2024 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Calif.

Hip-hop’s first billionaire has such a talent for rhymes that he was once described as “America’s urban Shakespeare”. Jay-Z clearly hasn’t lost his touch for insouciant moneymaking ...

Known as the god father of urban wear, his designs were a regular staple in hip-hop greats' closets — from Tupac, to Biggie, to Diddy and Aaliyah — and the scrawled logo and color-blocked ...

Anthony Griffin left a mark on Hartford’s cultural scene, as creator of the Heaven or Hell hip-hop clothing line. Soon Griffin, who died in December, will have a physical testament to his legacy ...

In the ’90s, he helped build cross-marketing and co-branding campaigns to usher Mecca USA Clothing, ENYCE Clothing/FILA to the burgeoning Hip-Hop community. Both companies made tens of millions ...

ALTHOUGH hip-hop is the musical outgrowth of urban African-American culture, its popularity is not bound by geography or culture. Furthermore, more and more suburban teens, taking their cue from ...

Hip-hop's suggestion that violence is an expected reaction to urban culture is also detrimental to community development. But perhaps most pernicious is the unabashed glorification of man's basest ...

The actor Damon Wayans is trying to launch a hip-hop clothing line -- with a trademark that rapper Jay-Z famously rhymed with "Jigga." But officials are objecting to the attempt to trademark the ...

No one expects the merchandising plan to have a major effect on that bottom line. MGM is targeting urban youths at mall specialty stores and hip-hop clothing outlets in major cities.