(CNN) — Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at ...

The djembe drums and traditional chanting are long gone, replaced by TR-808 drum machines and rhythmic rhymes. As rap music becomes a worldwide phenomenon, non-Western nations are getting in on the ...

Sanya Osha receives funding from the Andrew M. Mellon Foundation but writes in his personal capacity. Rising 28-year-old South African dancer and rapper Costa Titch (born Costa Tsobanoglou) died after ...

He’s not Kid-ding around. Kid Cudi revealed that he soon may bow out of the rap game after emerging onto the music scene in the early 2000s. The Grammy Award winner, 38, teased his future plans during ...

With rap songs like Jibbs’ "Chain Hang Low," Nelly’s "Country Grammar" and even Fergie’s "London Bridge," there has certainly been no shortage of children’s rhymes in Hip-Hop. But now the tables are ...