In 2002, while working as a caterer in Starkville, Mississippi, Marisa Baggett was caught off guard when one of her clients requested sushi. “I had no clue what sushi was,” she says. “I wound up ...

So here I am drunk, watching MTV. There was some weird hip hop video thing on where they kept playing clips from rap videos. I heard them mention "getting crunk" at least twice. I was like: yeah man, ...

KALAMAZOO --Rumor has it hip-hop fans in Kalamazoo are doubtful rap star Lil Scrappy will actually show for his scheduled concert Saturday at Chenery Auditorium. There is no need to wonder. "I love it ...

White tees that stretched to the knee. Gold grills on teeth and cars. And accents slathered with so much sauce they forced the words to shapeshift. The crunk era of hip-hop took Andre 3000’s prophetic ...

1997: In the mid-to-late 1990s, a perceived East Coast versus West Coast rap war was a media coverage mainstay, and gangsta rap was as popular as it would ever be. It was against this backdrop that ...