‘Mexodus,’ a live-looping, hip-hop history lesson, reenergizes the American musical

Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson bring their award-winning musical 'Mexodus,' a live-looping, hip-hop musical about a ...
Chicago Reader

A queer hip-hop history lesson with He Who Walks Three Ways

He Who Walks Three Ways, from left to right: Ronald Clark, Juba Kalamka, Lori Branch, and Duro Wicks. This illustration is based on a photo taken by Dorothy Perry in Wicker Park in May 1993, a week ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Hip-hop’s geography lessons: As it grew, different places made its sounds local

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Nothing shows off hip-hop’s ability to change and adapt, to be reinvented again and again, more than the different sounds that have come out over the decades as it spread around the ...
NPR

Learning a Lesson or Two from Arabic Hip-Hop

Hip hop music has spread from the American streets throughout the world. Commentator Aaron Freeman says Arab Hip hop has a unique feature, and he thinks American artists should take notice. AARON ...