Hip-Hop

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  • Music 2003: Rock is dead (once more with feeling)

    Forget those boring white boys with guitars. Thanks to Missy, OutKast and Timbaland, for the first time since the Beatles, the most vital forms of pop are found at the top of the charts.
    By Thomas Bartlett January 2, 2004

  • "Honey"

    This hackneyed hip-hop dance flick boasts some flashes of inspiration -- and a smokin' Missy Elliott. But we're still waiting for the great rap musical.
    By Charles Taylor December 5, 2003

  • "Tupac: Resurrection"

    Yes, the world needs a documentary that somehow makes sense of the charismatic, contradictory pioneer of gangsta rap. This isn't it.
    By Stephanie Zacharek November 14, 2003

  • Will the real Feminem please stand up

    Is Sarai the music industry's eagerly awaited lady Slim Shady?
    By Baz Dreisinger September 20, 2003

  • Funkenstein's monster

    George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic are a hugely groove-alicious influence on contemporary pop culture. But could anything like Clinton's grand artistic vision -- and inclusive politics -- thrive in today's shallow realm of bling?
    By Scott Thill September 18, 2003

  • Top Dogg

    Inside Snoop Dogg's growing empire, where the hip-hop mogul enjoys his wine, women and bong. But can he outrun his gangsta past?
    By Baz Dreisinger August 22, 2003

  • No bitches, no hos

    The hyper-literate women of New York-based hip-hop trio Northern State represent for the sisterhood. Just don't ask them about Fannypack.
    By Lynn Harris August 12, 2003

  • Simmons says

    Weary opponents of New York's draconian drug laws just got reinforcements -- some of hip-hop's biggest stars.
    By Michelle Goldberg June 3, 2003

  • "Malibu's Most Wanted"

    Don't be hatin' -- unless you're hatin' Jamie Kennedy's lame wigga act in this witless comedy.
    By Charles Taylor April 18, 2003

  • This week on DVD

    "Spirited Away" and other classic anime from Hayao Miyazaki, an almost-forgotten '80s musical, the action star who couldn't and the long-awaited DVD premiere of "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo."
    April 15, 2003

  • Pepsi's sticky race war

    Ozzy Osbourne vs. Ludacris! Bill O'Reilly vs. Russell Simmons! Beneath the goofy grudge match over those Pepsi TV ads lies some real racial hypocrisy.
    By Bomani Jones February 8, 2003

  • White star, black galaxy

    Eminem is the man of the hour, but rap is still an African-American business.
    By Amol Sarva November 20, 2002

  • "Brown Sugar"

    Sanaa Lathan and Taye Diggs shine in a hip-hop-fueled romantic comedy that displays the quiet strength of African-American film's new wave.
    By Charles Taylor October 11, 2002

  • Bootleg culture

    Powerful computers and easy-to-use editing software are challenging our conceptions of authorship and creativity. As usual, the entertainment industry doesn't like this one bit.
    By Pete Rojas August 1, 2002

  • Hip-hop nation

    A spokesman for the new generation of African-Americans says hip-hop can ignite a fresh wave of black activism -- but first the civil rights veterans have to get out of the way.
    By Suzy Hansen July 10, 2002

  • Music preview: DJ Shadow

    After taking the "found sound" genre to another level in 1996 with "Endtroducing ...," Josh Davis aka DJ Shadow is back with a new collage, "The Private Press." Listen in.
    By Dan Kois June 26, 2002

  • "Fight the Power"

    Public Enemy's explosive 1989 hit single brought hip-hop to the mainstream -- and brought revolutionary anger back to pop.
    By Laura K. Warrell June 3, 2002

  • The rap against Puff Daddy

    Sean "Puffy" Combs claims he's been targeted by prosecutors for being a young, black celebrity -- but that celebrity is built on a criminal image.
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson February 6, 2001

  • He's got the beat

    Quietly, humbly and only knocking over one shelf, 23-year-old Scott Kuzner breaks into the world of hip-hop.
    By Chris Colin January 22, 2001

  • "Save the Last Dance"

    Not good -- not even -- but Julia Stiles radiates and this urban teen movie takes a gutsy stand on black boys who date white girls.
    By Charles Taylor January 12, 2001

  • The Hard Rap Cafe

    The Brooklyn Museum's "Hip-Hop Nation" show surveys rap's journey from Bronx block parties to cold-lampin' in the Hamptons.
    By Alex Pappademas October 17, 2000

  • William Upski Wimsatt

    No More Prisons
    By William Upski Wimsatt October 5, 2000

  • Eminem's dirty secrets

    He's now a notorious Detroit rapper who spits hate machine-gun style. His family, friends and the bully who beat him up in school remember someone different.
    By M.L. Elrick July 25, 2000

  • The hip-hop pornographer

    Lil' Kim debuted as a brassy M.C. who wanted orgasms -- not respect. Four years on, the life of a porn-positive rapper looks pretty empty.
    By Michelle Goldberg July 18, 2000

  • Sharps & Flats

    A hack genius, a bloodthirsty M.C. and a few mouthy street kids from Yonkers: The Ruff Ryders find a chartworthy formula -- again.
    By Keith Harris July 18, 2000
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