hiphops

By Associated Press LOS ANGELES: The 2023 BET Awards celebrated 50 years of hip-hop with tributes to the genre’s earliest voices, late legends, and new talent during…

Art of Craft is a series about specialists whose work rises to the level of art.The textile artist Bisa Butler was working in her studio in Jersey City, N.J., one day when her husband, John…

They're hip-hop artists who weave public-health messages…

Once shunned by the Recording Academy, hip-hop was honored Sunday at the 2023 Grammy Awards with an homage celebrating 50 years of the genre, with performances by influential artists from…

Futura 2000's Break Train, 1980. Photograph by Martha…

On the Shelf The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop By Jonathan AbramsCrown: 544 pages, $35If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from…

(Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) A glass-walled truck motored its way into a strobing L.A. warehouse in April, careful to avoid the throngs of people who’d gathered for…

On the morning that Saweetie learned she was a Grammy-nominated artist, she did not cry; she did not run a victory lap; she didn’t call for a celebration at all.Members of her team, bemused…