Attention students! Dayton Live is offering a chance to win tickets to “Hamilton” in a contest titled Founding Fathers Cypher. A cypher is defined as a gathering of rappers, beatboxers and/or poets ...
Campaign group Art Not Evidence have shared a powerful spoken word film as part of its ongoing campaign against the use of rap lyrics in UK court cases. Featuring poet Ty'rone Haughton, the film ...
Richmond-based rapper and poet Mad Skillz has won his first Grammy Award, taking home the honor for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards. Mad Skillz earned the win for Words ...
On International Mother Language Day, we look at how rap and hip-hop artists are mixing languages and spreading a vernacular that captures the contemporary Francophone world: multi-ethnic, ...
Loud, proud, and here — 2020 was a breakthrough year for women in hip-hop, with Megan Thee Stallion’s Grammy win for Best New Artist, Niki Minaj and Doja Cat’s smooth chart topper “Say So,” and Cardi ...
"Fallon L. Taylor-Gray (DaT mCeEpoEt) will headline “Glasshouse Music Presents Poetry Night” at Club Escalade on June 9 from 6-10 p.m. Taylor-Gray was born in Indianapolis, but grew up in New York ...
NEW YORK - Long before Public Enemy urged the need to "Fight the Power" or N.W.A. offered a crude rebuke of the police, Gil Scott-Heron was articulating the rage and the disillusionment of the black ...
Attention students! Dayton Live is offering a chance to win tickets to “Hamilton” in a contest titled Founding Fathers Cypher. A cypher is defined as a gathering of rappers, beatboxers and/or poets ...