“This is black culture,” said Nick Gates, who is co-teaching hip-hop at COCA (Center for Creative Arts) in University City this summer. “A lot of black youth don’t know about the four elements of ...

“Yeeking,” for those unfamiliar, is an up-tempo dance style created in Atlanta. Most yeek routines contain a gamut of dance moves, including the “prep,” transformer” and “devastator.” But “yeek” is ...

Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school’s “first” hip-hop professor. Even if the job title and the historic nature of the appointment might ...

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