Faulds’ father has been a regular at Shish Mahal for nearly 50 years. She got the tattoo in part so that her dad could have free curries for a year. Faulds had also been searching for the perfect ...

Rapper Roxanne Shanté has a theory about why women in hip-hop now wield not only massive popularity, but respect. “(The music industry) is able to see that female rappers are worth money. They are ...

Legend is the word that comes to mind when discussing the countless women who had enough courage to enter into the male-dominated hip hop industry and flip it on its head. Female rappers climbing to ...

When I was a kid, I owned a copy of Heather B’s final album, Eternal Affairs, on CD and basically wore out the disc listening to it on the bus to and from school. For years after, I wondered why ...

One of the most obvious ways to add a touch of art to your skin is with a tattoo. Essentially, every square centimeter of your body can serve as a canvas — so you have plenty of space to work with ...

Hip-hop is celebrating its 50th anniversary throughout 2023, which seemed impossible when the genre was criticized as a fad early on. In 2017, Forbes reported that hip-hop surpassed rock as the most ...

I’m absolutely obsessed with tattoos—I have everything from a wrist tattoo to a rib tattoo, and I’m always looking at inspiration pics to plan what I’m going to get next. And you know the spot that’s ...

Before the genre was called "hip-hop," MC Sha-Rock changed the game. The roots of hip-hop can be traced back to the night of Aug. 11, 1973, when DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy Campbell hosted a ...

Despite men dominating the Latin hip-hop scene, the women do not fall behind. From Farina to Nicki Nicole, and beyond, check out the list of raperas killing the game. Latin hip-hop is a movement that ...

Does the name Sylvia Robinson ring a bell? For hip-hop fans, it should. Not only did she found Sugar Hill Records, the first hip-hop record label, with husband Joe Robinson, she also produced the 1979 ...