A rock legend and a rap icon are teaming up to form a “dope” new group.

*John Densmore of The Doors and hip-hop legend Chuck D of Public Enemy have teamed up for a new musical project called doPE.

Chuck D and John Densmore have recorded an album together as DoPE. Public Enemy’s Chuck D and The Doors’ John Densmore have ...

I’m from the small Central Illinois town of Decatur. My hometown is one of the sites where the war on drugs and many of its battles took place. In 2018, Decatur was listed at number seven in USA Today ...

"I am the wish in the wishbone/That white people break for good luck/And the next day one of them falls and breaks their neck," rap proto hip-hoppers The Last Poets in 1970's "Black Wish." Pictured ...

A.D. Carson’s new book, Being Dope: Hip Hop and Theory through Mixtape Memoir, explores race, history and culture through music and storytelling. Released by Oxford University Press on Dec. 10, Being ...

The drinking card game is meant to honor Hip Hop hits, as well as history. Two Black women are expanding upon Hip Hop’s 50th anniversary in an innovative way. Their card game, University of Dope, ...

I’m driving with Truth, a friend who is a music producer. We both make rap music, but he makes beats, too. I’m an undergraduate at the small, private university in my hometown, Decatur, Illinois. He ...