By Jack M. Angelo, senior content producer
In general, the Grammies are not the best measure of artistry. Their picks for winners are often proven to be shorts...
By Jack M. Angelo, senior content director
Cataloguing the career of a certified legend like Big Daddy Kane is a futile effort. Born Antonio Hardy in 1968, Big...
In the latest episode of on the Real, Baltimore's Driscoe tells the story of his battle with bipolar disorder, and how Hip-Hop first helped him navigate the con...
In the latest episode of on the Real, BX producer/emcee Trapadari discusses his upbringing in the Boogie Down, his hip-hop influences, and how his father instil...
By Jack M. Angelo, senior content producer
Hip-hop inarguably began on the streets of the east coast, in New York City. However, it did not take long for t...
By Jack M. Angleo, senior content director
A few months ago, when StayUp.News covered PnB Rock’s Baltimore concert with Lil Baby, we mentioned that many na...
By Jack M. Angelo, senior content creator
Spoken word, poetry, rap and hip-hop have been inexorably linked since the beginning. Though the earliest form of...
StayUp.News editor-in-chief Roberto E. Alejandro recently sat down with Flatbush, BK, producer Raticus (above, in a photo by Eye N Eye Media), to discuss his ne...
By Jack M. Angelo, senior content editor
If you think “real” hip-hop is dead, then there are two explanations: either you’re my bitter editor or it’s your ...
By Roberto E. Alejandro, editor-in-chief
The postcolonial theorist Frantz Fanon, a Black man from the island of Martinique, relates a story in his seminal ...
