The co-curators and performers of Brooklyn Academy of Music’s annual celebration of hip-hop and poetry talk about this year’s theme of “The New Storyteller.” The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) ...
Not long after we completed the second or third Word of South Festival of Literature and Music here in Tallahassee, someone said to me, “So, you’re doing a festival related to words and music, and you ...
Loud, proud, and here — 2020 was a breakthrough year for women in hip-hop, with Megan Thee Stallion’s Grammy win for Best New Artist, Niki Minaj and Doja Cat’s smooth chart topper “Say So,” and Cardi ...
What came first, the chicken or the egg? I often ask myself similar questions but with words or rap music. Do I love words because of rap music or rap music because of the words? I’m 44 and no closer ...
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) annually hosts “Word. Sound. Power., ” a multi-disciplinary amalgamation of hip-hop, spoken word, dancing and theatrics. This year’s series theme, “Word: The New ...