Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It’s around 9:00 on a Tuesday evening in East Quad’s Abeng Multicultural Lounge. A few students ...

The night of the BET Hip-Hop Awards is the closest thing hip-hop has to a cultural holiday, in large part, because of the freestyle “Cyphers” scattered throughout the evening. The Cyphers are modeled ...

Hip-hop likes staying true to the culture. It then becomes important to document that culture so it doesn’t get diluted by false tales. The term 'kill' became a Hip-hop colloquialism to define ...

This past weekend, Vic Mensa caught a ton of backlash when DJ Scheme, the late XXXTentacion's DJ, called out the Chicago rapper for dissing XXX in his 2018 BET Hip Hop Awards cypher. Now, after facing ...

SUNDAY NIGHTS are FREE at THE BOOM BOOM ROOM *RETURN OF THE CYPHER (R.O.T.C.)* “Locally-Sourced Organic Hip-Hop- For The People, By The People” A Live Showcase of… LOCAL EMCEES LOCAL BEATBOXERS LOCAL ...

It might be 95 degrees on this sultry summer evening in East Point, but here in the CreateATL outdoor space, much of the heat the crowd is feeling comes from the rapid-fire lyrical craftsmanship that ...

The most important rule of One Hundred, a monthly freestyle rap event organized by local nonprofit Soul Food Cypher, is to show courtesy. Cursing is strongly discouraged—unless it is to prove a larger ...

This can be said about a lot of things, but this might be the worst thing ever made and released in the history of the internet. On Monday, Clemson’s athletic department decided to tune in with the ...

In foundational hip-hop films such as “Juice,” “8 Mile” or “Brown Sugar,” freestyle rap is often depicted in the context of a battle where a rowdy throng gathers around two MCs preparing for verbal ...

Whether written in advance or delivered off the top of the dome, freestyling remains one of the rawest forms of Hip Hop expression. In addition to crafting infectious cuts for their fans, the art form ...

Reginae Carter blew us away with her recent freestyle on the BET Hip Hop Awards cypher. Even though her legendary father, Lil’ Wayne, wrote it for her, she showed that she has the same star power as ...