On this day in 2006, Lumumba Carson, better known as Professor X of X-Clan, passed away at 49 years old due to complications from meningitis.

Grammy-winning rap trio Digable Planets will play San Antonio outdoor venue The Espee on Saturday, June 21, bringing ...

The genius synergy of traditional hip-hop, jazz and soul ... you’d probably recognise their distinct ‘mascot’- an Afrocentric ...

“It was a specific type of rap called Afrocentric rap, which has a strong political focus and was made famous by the duo Public Enemy, that propelled academic interest in hip-hop,” says Gutierrez, who ...

asked A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip on the rap group's 1990 debut album, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, a breakthrough in what became known as Afrocentric hip-hop.