Hip Hop & Rap

Resources in this category:

Africanhiphop.com
http://www.africanhiphop.com/

Features new and archived articles on hip-hop music in Africa, reviews of African hip-hop artists, and discussion forums. The site covers hip-hop scenes reaching from Tanzania to South Africa and Liberia. This page also links to African Hip Hop Radio.

All Hip Hop
http://www.allhiphop.com/

AllHipHop.com has become a valuable resource for hip-hop on the Internet, featuring daily news, interviews, reviews, multimedia, a fast growing community and other interesting content.

BET
http://www.bet.com/

Find out the latest on the Rap/Hip Hop scene.

Hip Hop Game
http://www.hiphopgame.com/mainpage.php3

HipHopGame.com provides exclusive interviews and in-depth reviews of the people and music impacting the urban streets of America. This site is heavy with advertisement, popups, and flashing ads.

Hip Hop Research Portal
http://www.hiphopportal.net/

This searchable database attempts to provide bibliographic access to published resources about Hip Hop culture including MC’s, D.J’s, Break dancing, and Graffiti.

Hip Hop Style: What is Cool?
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/infocus/fashion/hiphop.html

This online documentary revisits the evolution of Hip Hop's influence on fashion over the past twenty years.

Experience Music Project's Hip Hop Timeline
http://www.empsfm.org/exhibitions/index.asp?articleID=664

The Experience Music Project, a Seattle museum, offers an excellent interactive timeline covering the first two decades of Hip Hop, from its Bronx beginnings in the 1970s until 1992.

MTV Online
http://www.mtv.com/

This is MTV's official site with current news, animation, music reviews, weekly schedule, buzz clips, etc. Definitely not for the slow of modem.

Music.org.za
http://www.music.org.za/

Provides information about South African musical artists and general information to support regional music as well as to educate an international audience.

SOHH
http://www.sohh.com/

Deemed as the Best Hip Hop site by Rolling Stone Magazine, SOHH.com provides daily news and features on the performers and record labels within the industry. This site takes a long time to load, especially on a dial-up connection. It does have popups attached.

The Phonograph Turntable and Performance Practice in Hip Hop Music
http://www.research.umbc.edu/eol/2/white/

This article by Miles White discusses the evolution of the phonographic turntable into an instrument. The site depicts the use of the turntable as an instrument with the use of both audio and video clips.

URB1
http://www.sojones.com/

The first Hip Hop fashion website to appear online, URB1 provides the latest news, rumors, and interviews within the Hip Hop Fashion World.