Editorials

I often wonder just what goes through the minds of today's mainstream rappers as they turn out plate after plate of "music" for the microwave era. Is it possible that they are as desensitized to the language ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy on Tuesday, tore down the American flag and burned it during a protest over what they said was a film being produced in the United S...

Long time in the making, many months waiting and fittingly not even a week after she received word of the Underground Music Award Nomination for Female Artist of the Year we got "The Truth". I listened to the...

We've led up to this with a few previous posts on Hip Hop's power, place and influence beyond the United States. Now get a look at the recently concluded SPLASH Fest in Germany that brought a number of Hip Ho...

A mass collective of Hip Hop's intellectuals, artist, media personalities both domestic and abroad are in the midst of the 2nd annual Hip Hop Panel. ...

Our examination of Hip Hop gets a little deeper today as our traveling correspondent Franchesca Benzant presents the dilemma of Hip Hop's overwhelming power to mislead. When cultures outside of the U.S enco...

It's one of the worse skeletons in an American closet full of them. The treatment of those men and women that have served in the U.S armed forces defies understand as many come home to anything but the respe...

In a society where so much is turned up to the highest degree and accessibility to sensitive content is as easy as a few mouse clicks. Psychologist Dr. Philip Zimbardo takes a look at two particular stimuli,...

Taking the culture beyond the U.S borders, The Hip Hop Democrat brings you another look into the global role of Hip Hop.  Our guest road correspondant the Fly By Coco Latina touches on the early arrival o...

Nasir Jones links up with Complex Mag for a 10yr anniversary reunion and a candid convo about his recent ups and downs leading up to his new album Life is Good. Hard to believe it's been a full decade since...