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News Articles: Hip-Hop

Nicki Minaj attends the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on August 27, 2017 in Inglewood, Calif.

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Nicki Minaj paints hip-hop pink — and changes the game

The 2010 Nicki Minaj album Pink Friday brought vibrant new shades to hip-hop.

September 08, 2023
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  • Phil Harrell
Big Boi (L) and Andre 3000 of Outkast perform onstage during day 3 of the Firefly Music Festival on June 21, 2014 in Dover, Delaware.

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  • Music News

'The South got something to say' — Outkast fulfills its prophecy on Aquemini

Hip-hop is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Commentator Kiana Fitzgerald is looking back at the albums that changed the game. Today, it's OutKast's album Aquemini.

September 04, 2023
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  • Phil Harrell
3 members of the Memphis hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia. D.J. Paul (from left), Juicy J and Crunchy Black at MTV's Total Request Live on March 22, 2006, in New York City.

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  • Music

Three 6 Mafia turns $4,500 into $45 million with 'Mystic Stylez'

In 1995, the Memphis hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia took a shoestring DIY approach to recording their debut album, Mystic Stylez. Their example led to a flourishing independent hip-hop scene.

August 18, 2023
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  • Phil Harrell
Music Producer Dallas Austin

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  • Arts & Life

Dallas Austin 'laid out a roadmap' for Georgia music. Macon Film Festival honors him this weekend

Leah Fleming chats with music producer and filmmaker Dallas Austin about receiving his upcoming honor at The Macon Film Festival, what's real in the movie Drumline and how a busted keyboard got him into music.

August 18, 2023
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  • Leah Fleming and
  • Natalie Mendenhall
Darryl McDaniels (L) and Joseph Simmons (R) of Run-DMC, closing the Hip Hop 50 Live concert at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, N.Y. early Saturday morning.

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  • Arts & Life

Kings and queens gathered for 'Hip Hop 50 Live' at Yankee Stadium

An eight-hour concert Friday night was a procession of generations of hip-hop royalty, from the Sugar Hill Gang to current stars like Lil Wayne. Run-DMC gave what was billed as their last performance.

August 14, 2023
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
In this Feb. 8, 2004 file photo, OutKast members Big Boi and Andre 3000 pose in front of the three awards they won at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. In 2004 OutKast's double album, “Speakerboxxx/The Love Below," was the second rap album to win album of the year.

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  • Music Features

A history of hip-hop in Georgia: From Jack the Rapper to 'rap's epicenter'

Hip-hop may have originated in New York, but the genre now finds many of its current hitmakers in Georgia. And there are at least 50 important moments in hip-hop involving the state's artists, record labels or just events that happened here.

August 11, 2023
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  • Sonia Murray
Rasheeda speaks during an interview with the Associated Press for the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, on Thursday, June 29, 2023 in Atlanta.

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  • Music

Women battle misogyny to send hip-hop spinning in a new direction

Female rappers have been a part of hip-hop since its debut. At hip-hop's 50th anniversary, female rappers are taking their moment to shine – while still demanding respect and facing decades-old challenges.

August 11, 2023
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  • Associated Press
2 Live Crew in 1989 (Mr. Mixx, Brother Marquis, Luther Campbell & Fresh Kid Ice)

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  • Music News

2 Live Crew fought the law with its album, 'As Nasty As They Wanna Be'

In 1989, 2 Live Crew's As Nasty As They Wanna Be became the first album declared legally obscene, and the group's legal battles set a precedent for the rappers that followed.

August 10, 2023
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  • Phil Harrell
Goodie Mob will perform at the Lakewood Amphitheater concert as part of the ATL 50 Hip Hop events.

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  • Music

City to celebrate music history with ATL 50 Hip Hop events

ATL 50 Hip Hop is a series of events including academia talks, movie screenings, dance events, a time capsule and a concert.

August 07, 2023
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  • Rough Draft
Rakim (left) and Eric B., 1987

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Eric B. & Rakim change the flow of rap with 'Paid in Full'

With their 1987 debut album Paid in Full, Eric B. & Rakim introduced internal rhyme schemes to rap, and changed the flow of hip-hop forever.

August 04, 2023
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  • Phil Harrell and
  • Kiana Fitzgerald
American rapper, singer and songwriter Kurtis Blow, circa 1980.

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  • Music

Kurtis Blow breaks hip-hop nationally with his 1980 debut

Hip-hop is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Commentator Kiana Fitzgerald is looking back at the albums that changed the game.

July 25, 2023
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By:
  • Phil Harrell and
  • Kiana Fitzgerald
Young Thug performs at the Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago on Aug. 1, 2021. Jury selection has been slow going in the Atlanta racketeering and gang case against rapper Young Thug and others, with many potential jurors trying to get out of serving and alleged attempts to smuggle contraband to defendants also causing delays.

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  • News

Fulton County prosecutors are trying to use Young Thug's song lyrics as evidence of crimes

The rapper has been jail for more than a year and last week released a new 15-track album, Business is Business. 

June 28, 2023
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
Offset, left, and Quavo of Migos perform at the BET Awards on Sunday, June 25, 2023, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

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  • Arts & Life

BET Awards honor hip-hop as stars pay tribute to legends such as Tina Turner

Sunday's biggest surprise at the 2023 BET Awards came when Quavo and Offset, the surviving members of Migos, performed in front of an image of Takeoff, who died in a shooting last December.

June 26, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
The Beastie Boys, as illustrated by Anny Yi in the children's book, "What Is Hip-Hop?" by Eric Morse

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  • Music Features

Atlanta Jazz Festival's Kids Zone promotes reading with giveaway of 'What is Hip-Hop'?

Hip-hop has been many things in its half century of existence, and "suitable for children" probably isn't what immediately comes to mind. But one book challenges that perception.

May 26, 2023
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  • Sonia Murray
They're hip-hop artists who weave public-health messages into their rhymes: From left: Sister Fa, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and Ali A.K.A. Mind perform at the Skoll World Forum 2023. During this rap, McDaniels called out: "I'm not afraid of the dark anymore/because I am the light./I'll be there at the start of the war/Because I am the fight."

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  • Arts & Life

Hip-hop turns 50: Here's a part of its history that doesn't always make headlines

For decades, the genre has had a stealth mission: promoting public health. It started with Doug E. Fresh's "Stroke Ain't No Joke."

May 15, 2023
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  • Ari Daniel
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