Heaving mosh pits. Vocalists with candy-colored hair and gender-bending jewelry, who stage-dive into crowds of shrieking young fans. Lyrics about chemical indulgences and all-night partying, with ...

Established in October, a group of first-year students set out to create Hip-Hop Club — a place for students to come together and learn about the genre in an engaging way. According to Hip-Hop Club’s ...

Though a self-described melting pot for the city’s social butterflies, there are about 40 people who are never welcome at 13 Pure. “Ninety-nine percent of the people are here to have fun,” co-owner ...

It may be a an unlikely combination, but this club is proving chess and hip-hop go perfectly together. Members of the hip-hop chess club in West Allis, WI, learn skills to help them become successful ...

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Sophomores Ben Center (COL ’14) and Brian Moran (COL ’14) grew up idolizing Jay-Z, Kanye West and Eminem. This semester, they’re bringing their favorite music to campus with one of Georgetown’s newest ...

Raquel "Rockz" Aleman (bottom left) plays a game of chess with Mikey (bottom right). Hip-hop and chess may seem like an unlikely pair. But a new club has combined the two in a way that’s educating ...

The streets of Los Angeles and Compton are synonymous with gangsta rap, but it was a small venue near East Hollywood at the corner of Melrose and Normandie avenues that helped launch the city’s ...

When Mohamed Moretta read New Times‘ recent story remembering the Beat Club, a strip-mall hot spot in Westchester that once hosted big-name acts such as Gloria Gaynor and Exposé, he noticed something ...

When I was a kid, I owned a copy of Heather B’s final album, Eternal Affairs, on CD and basically wore out the disc listening to it on the bus to and from school. For years after, I wondered why ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Jan. 7, 2003: Twenty years ago, 50 Cent kicked off 2003 with the release of "In Da Club," the first single from his soon-to-be-released debut album ...