The Culture Blog

On The Culture Podcast, we often discuss Hip-Hop as a genre, a movement, and a culture. On episode 60 titled: Hip Hop Saved My Life, we asked people what Hip Hop meant to them. For the purpose of this blog, we asked one hundred people from all walks…

Celebrating a milestone in music history, episode 143 of our podcast delves into the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop, held at the iconic Yankee Stadium on Hip Hop’s birthday, August 11th. The monumental event served as a testament to the global in…

What compels somebody to spend a quarter of a million dollars on an excursion to visit the wreckage of the RMS titanic that’s been sunk for over 100 years?  What kind of superiority complex, vanity complex, or outright boredom is require…

I'm going to consider this part 2 of the "A Little About Me" series.  I was born in the 80s and raised in the 90s…. I have a slogan that says: 80s made, 90s Hip Hop raised. The golden era of, well, everything. Hip Hop, Saturday morning …

Hip-hop is a genre renowned for its lyrical prowess, where artists use words as their weapons to express their thoughts, emotions, and experiences. Within this vast catalog of verses, there are certain lines and verses that stand out as masterpieces…

As Hip Hop turns 50 years old, we decided to dedicate a blog post to the history of Hip Hop as a musical genre and a cultural movement. In the early 1970s, the African American and Latinx populations of the Bronx in New York City saw the birth of t…

Is being tone deaf a form of racism? When Mississippi news anchor Barbie Bassett lost her job after utilizing (arguably improperly) the Snoop Dogg phrase “fo-shizzle my nizzle” the conversation immediately began. Was it racism (overt or…

Is the Blue Lives Matter movement racist? While at the time of this writing, the media coverage of the blue vs the black has since subsided, it is a battle that is forever ongoing and has been for far longer than the invention of smart phones. T…

I came to bring the pain, hardcore from the brain. Let's go inside my astral plane. Method man was my favorite rapper growing up. I don't know why. He just was. His flow always stood out from the rest. All these years later, it still stands the t…

Here at The Culture, we are all about Hip-Hop. We are also all about lists. Here are our top 10 rappers with the best flows in the history of rap. Honorable mentions: AZ AZ is cut right out of the same KOOL G RAP cloth that Nas is cut out from. H…