Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It’s around 9:00 on a Tuesday evening in East Quad’s Abeng Multicultural Lounge. A few students ...

Denver MC Matthew Jones, aka BROTH3R, hosts Hush, a freestyle rap night held at Mutiny Information Cafe the third Friday of each month – one of the few regular underground hip-hop events in the Mile ...

The night of the BET Hip-Hop Awards is the closest thing hip-hop has to a cultural holiday, in large part, because of the freestyle “Cyphers” scattered throughout the evening. The Cyphers are modeled ...

In foundational hip-hop films such as “Juice,” “8 Mile” or “Brown Sugar,” freestyle rap is often depicted in the context of a battle where a rowdy throng gathers around two MCs preparing for verbal ...

It might be 95 degrees on this sultry summer evening in East Point, but here in the CreateATL outdoor space, much of the heat the crowd is feeling comes from the rapid-fire lyrical craftsmanship that ...

The first sentence in the description for Tuesday night’s Undergraduate Government of Boston College event, “The Pursuit of Happiness: Mental Health in Hip Hop,” was a question: “Have you ever heard a ...

Hip-hop likes staying true to the culture. It then becomes important to document that culture so it doesn’t get diluted by false tales. M.I Abaga BlaqBonez A-Q Loose Kaynon IN 'L.A.M.B Cypher 2019' ...

The most important rule of One Hundred, a monthly freestyle rap event organized by local nonprofit Soul Food Cypher, is to show courtesy. Cursing is strongly discouraged—unless it is to prove a larger ...

“Cipher” refers to either a code—a language known only by adepts, impenetrable to outsiders—or the figure zero. “Cypher,” meanwhile, refers to both a code and a circular shape. The difference is that ...

Eminem’s freestyle on the BET Hip-Hop Awards show was not good. Like many of the overrated rap titan’s worst songs, it was filled with colorful metaphors about nothing and fanciful, ridiculous ...

This past weekend, Vic Mensa caught a ton of backlash when DJ Scheme, the late XXXTentacion's DJ, called out the Chicago rapper for dissing XXX in his 2018 BET Hip Hop Awards cypher. Now, after facing ...