Timbaland and Swizz Beatz provided entertainment during the global pandemic in 2020 and beyond when they began Verzuz. The legendary producers showed off their impressive production catalogs during ...

Hip Hop Film Festival’s 10th anniversary will spotlight Master Cyphers, a three-day Harlem series of film industry talks with a twist. The Hip Hop Film Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary by ...

The battle for the hip-hop throne might never be determined any time soon, but the battle for dominance has ushered in the season when rappers come together to record cyphers to prove they’ve got what ...

Much like Timbaland, Swizz Beatz had his team of rappers for the BET Hip-Hop Awards cypher, enlisting the bars of Foggieraw, Symba, Cassidy, and ScarLip. The four-piece tackled beats from Swizz’s ...

The show's suspension comes amid broader efforts to curb diversity at the institutional level. The next attempt to canonize ...

OKLAHOMA — In crowded studios, movie theaters, and high school stages, beats shake the walls and rhymes cut like the truth. Oklahoma nonprofit SoulBody Cyphers is using Hip-Hop to save futures and ...

Robert Purcell Community Center — usually buzzing with students on late night Nasties runs and aggressive quarter-carders — took on a different role Friday night as it housed the C.U. Cyphers’ and ...

In a tribute to the golden anniversary of Hip-hop, Chocolate City Music, renowned as a pioneer in the African music industry, proudly announces the release of the Chocolate City Cypher. The tribute ...

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." ...

The 2015 BET Hip-Hop Awards were pretty uneventful. Of all the winners, few showed up to accept their awards and none of the performances were particularly memorable, but at least we have the cyphers.

The countdown to the second Cypher City Hip-Hop Festival started some time ago for founder Ryan James. He could hardly contain his enthusiasm for the festival during an interview with the News Journal ...