The linguistic anthropologist was captivated by hip hop rhymes in the 1980s and went on to build a model archive ...

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Dr. Marcyliena Morgan, the founding director of Harvard’s Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, which now bears her name, died September 28 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. The linguistic ...

Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.

There’s no art form that’s without its own archivists, researchers, and experts, but not all of them come with the academic credentials to go with it. From combing through lyrical double entendres, ...

Fifty years after critics dismissed hip-hop as a passing fad, Grammy winner LL COOL J is taking viewers back to the genre's authentic New York roots with his new docuseries "Hip Hop Was Born Here," ...