Rap and Hip-Hop

October 24, 2024

Samuel L. Jackson, Megan Thee Stallion and Sarah Jessica Parker Pick Up Honors

Fall gala season is in full swing with its annual marathon of lavish events drawing influential and powerful figures. Across New York, actors, musicians, politicians, philanthropists […]
May 6, 2024

New Ho King, a Chinese Restaurant, Is Winning the Kendrick Lamar-Drake Beef

New Ho King, open since 1976 in Toronto, has become an unlikely pop-culture battleground after being featured in songs from both rappers. The last six weeks […]
December 11, 2023

Bad Blood: A Timeline of the Taylor Swift-Kanye West-Kim Kardashian Feud

After 14 years, a new interview suggests this dispute may keep giving us new chapters. Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. Optimus […]
August 14, 2023

Fans Celebrate Hip-Hop’s 50th Anniversary

The start of hip-hop dates to Aug. 11, 1973, when DJ Kool Herc created continuous break-beats by working two turntables during a party in a rec […]
August 14, 2023

Fans Celebrate Hip-Hop’s 50th Anniversary

The start of hip-hop dates to Aug. 11, 1973, when DJ Kool Herc created continuous break-beats by working two turntables during a party in a rec […]
June 18, 2023

Pharrell Williams on His New Role at Louis Vuitton

Earlier this month, Pharrell Williams was in the men’s atelier on the second floor of Louis Vuitton’s corporate office in Paris, sunglasses on, surveying his new […]
May 15, 2023

Hip-Hop’s Next Takeover: Bisa Butler’s Quilts

Art of Craft is a series about specialists whose work rises to the level of art. The textile artist Bisa Butler was working in her studio […]
February 23, 2023

Pharrell Threads the Needle

Why Louis Vuitton chose Mr. Williams as its new designer of men’s wear. It’s bigger than hip-hop. Earlier this month at the Grammys, Pharrell Williams hit the […]
February 9, 2023

Hip-Hop Fashion Pioneers Reminisce About Clothes That Shaped the Genre

A proud crowd of hip-hop style pioneers gathered at the Museum at F.I.T. on Tuesday night to toast the opening of a show that celebrates the […]
February 8, 2023

On Hip-Hop’s 50th Anniversary, a Look at the Genre’s Fashion

A museum exhibition and book kick off the anniversary of a genre incubated in the Bronx and exported to the world. “Everything is a flashback,” Syreeta […]