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The lyrics were flowing, the beats were bumping and all vibes were on a positive tip Saturday night at Will’s Pub. The Alphabet Aces hip-hop showcase was a night of rap heavyweights spanning geography ...

When Kaitlin McGaw and Tommy Soulati Shepherd founded the performance collective Alphabet Rockers, the longtime friends wanted to inspire children to make social change. Hip hop seemed the perfect ...

Their sound is hip, but the lyrics are all about shapes and numbers and letters, hence the group's name: the Alphabet Rockers. They are bringing their tunes for the 7-and-under set to Yerba Buena ...

Founder of La Société Des Griffeurs, MEGA pays tribute to classic rap punchlines in his "I JUST MURDERED THE ALPHABET" project. Over 100 meaningful punchlines have been illustrated with no less than ...

For many, 2020 will be remembered as a year of soundbite politics and angry street protests. Others will remember the troubling sound of the “Covid cough.” And all of us will remember the absence of ...

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...

Women have always been a part of hip-hop history — from the culture's B-girl days to its birth in the Bronx, NY, to today's era that sees femcees putting rap on their backs. The culture doesn't move ...