Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It’s around 9:00 on a Tuesday evening in East Quad’s Abeng Multicultural Lounge. A few students ...

Some of battle rap’s nicest writers penned and voiced bars for LeBron, KD, Butler, Embiid and Jokić in the NBA superstars battle rap cypher. The worlds of Hip-Hop and basketball have collided in a new ...

People watching their performance can claim that they wanted to show off their own very best individual skill set for the culture and spirit of hip hop. From Left to Right: Yardy Léxandros, ...

Last night BET aired their annual Hip Hop Awards. In the midst of performances and handing out awards to artists, the show returned with their signature series of cyphers. BET shared multiple cyphers ...

It might be 95 degrees on this sultry summer evening in East Point, but here in the CreateATL outdoor space, much of the heat the crowd is feeling comes from the rapid-fire lyrical craftsmanship that ...

“Cipher” refers to either a code—a language known only by adepts, impenetrable to outsiders—or the figure zero. “Cypher,” meanwhile, refers to both a code and a circular shape. The difference is that ...

Who knew they could rhyme? H.E.R., Teyana Taylor, Brandy and Erykah Badu rocked their mics right. The four women rapped about the beauty of Black women, with Brandy saying: “Know you beautiful and ...

In foundational hip-hop films such as “Juice,” “8 Mile” or “Brown Sugar,” freestyle rap is often depicted in the context of a battle where a rowdy throng gathers around two MCs preparing for verbal ...

In an interview with Newsweek, director Letia Solomon talks about the themes of self-identity and sexuality within her short film, The Cypher, which had its online premiere at the recent Tribeca Film ...

Ryan James wants to dispel the misperceptions surrounding hip-hop. "When you think hip-hop, it comes with an element of fear," he said, "because people associate it with guns, violence and drugs." ...